Herbstfreude, Up Close
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Comment by SandyP:
How PRETTY!!!!! Such a striking, 3-dimensional photo! Those soft colors are to DIE FOR!!! Excellent work, Amy!

Herbstfreude, Up Close
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Comment by tinky2:
Beautiful! I love the soft tones. Well done.

Herbstfreude, Up Close
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Comment by suemack:
Beautiful colours and dof.........this is gorgeous Amy!!!!

Herbstfreude, Up Close
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Comment by Jutilda:
It's like they are pushing up through a velvety green fog. Interesting and not the usual image. I like it.

Herbstfreude, Up Close
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Comment by photoslik1967:
Beautiful floral.

Broken symmetry
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Comment by ambaker:
Critique Club Review:

I'd say this meets the challenge well. After all you do have to take a picture of something.

Colors are great, and saturation/contrast/exposure and hues are all very well done. I really like the reflection of the clouds, across the face of the building. It definetly adds interest and texture to the picture. Your choice of subject matter was a good one. Only two things come to mind, in this very well done photograph. First is focus. I'm not not sure if it isn't just an illusion, but things look a bit soft along the black lines. Maybe it's just me, or a trick played by the lines as some sort of optical illusion. The other is the patch of sky at the upper left. Since this is an advanced editing challenge, if you had made it darker, or more of a contrast or even a compliment to the other colors, it might have added to the picture. As it is, you have these great colors, with a little bland bit at the upper left corner. I don't think just cropping it out would have worked either, because you would have lost too much of the rest of the picture. So unless you could have found a better angle, the sky bit needs to be in there. Overall a very good picture, as exemplified by your score. Well done!

Herbstfreude, Up Close
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Comment by Gabriel:
Small depth of field and soft colors make this quite nice.

Bee
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Comment by GuGi:
To bee or not to bee a pink blob -it's a good one Amy!
Do be do be do said Sinatra, whatever :)

Edit: Oh, I actuallythought of you yesterday - the weatherwoman said that we had foggy nights ahead. We should really get our act together and have a foggy GTG, at a late hour or a very early one.

Message edited by author 2006-09-09 07:46:18.

Herbstfreude, Up Close
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Comment by shudderbug:
beautiful and so softly pastel!! I really like the narrow DOF!

Herbstfreude, Up Close
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Comment by Sunshyne:
I like this - cool picture