silky white flower
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Comment by Blackstarlight0:
i like how calm the photograph is very still

silky white flower
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Comment by MoLaw:
Love the depth of field and soft light

silky white flower
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Comment by Artifacts:
Nice job processing this image! :)

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Comment by LalliSig:
For me the lighting could be better, did you try using a bigger lightsource?

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Comment by Artifacts:
Positives:
This is an improvement over your other submissions. It lacks color noise and sharpness is better and you are working a little shallow depth of field into your photography.

Technicals:
The closest part of the ball is slightly out of focus. Perpective and background are still uninteresting, though. The top of the ball is cut off and the bottom comes to close to the edge of the frame.

The Challenge:
The fact your ball is not really round and that it lacks precise symmetry will probably hurt the image in voting. Symmetry can be achieved in a photograph in a wide variety of ways. There are good examples in the challenge. Looks like the picture was taken with flash and voters typically vote available light images higher in these type situations.

Suggestions:
Instead of just pointing the camera at your subject and taking a picture think about taking the picture from unusual or different angles to make it look more interesting to the viewer. Use available light, like that through a window, whenever possible for a more natural look. There are different ways to frame your subject that will add more viewer interest. Look at the other challenge entries and see if you can learn some of them from the other photograph entries.

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Comment by femalevsnature:
Interesting.

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Comment by Monique64:
What is it?

1,2,3
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Comment by Artifacts:
Positives??????:
I have a rule that if there isn't anything positive I can say about an image then I shouldn't say anything at all. That is the case with this image. But you have asked and we talked about your photography and I know you want to do better, so I will just tell it like it is.

Technicals:
Outside that there are no seriously over or underexposed areas in the picture, there is little that is technically good about it. Color noise is a problem, sharpness is off and much needed post processing looks to be non-existent. The choice of subject and arrangement are probably boring or amature-ish looking to most voters. The digits aren't even properly arranged.

The Challenge:
More bad news. This complete fails to meet the challenge. You'll need instruction to learn more about the rule of thirds. Hopefully you can get into a Photoshop 101 class or get other mentoring to learn about it.

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The Rule of Thirds Example:
My entry in the rule of thirds challenge scored HORRIBLY, but it is a better example of rule of thirds than most of the other entries:



Notice that the center of the clover is offset to the lower left side. If you measured it accurately you will see that the centerpoint of the clover is exactly 1/3rd the way across the image from the left edge to the right and also 1/3rd the way up from the bottom to the top. That is called the lower left rule of thirds intersection point and is a very powerful compositional tool. There are three other equally powerful rule of thirds intersection points you could use in your compositions.

What makes this particularly strong for the rule of thirds is the clover's leaves accurately branch in an eye catching set of spokes from the lower left rule of thirds intersection point and the clover is the main subject of the composition.

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Suggestions:
Through mentoring DPCers will be able to help you to work on your photography for more satisfying submissions in future challenges. :)

Message edited by author 2007-05-02 16:07:19.

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Comment by tapcity:
this belongs in pi contest still its a mysterious object of subtly shifting symmetry 7!

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Comment by RPvanderHilst:
It's spherical, but that's not enough to be symmetrical in my book.