Roses Make Lovely Bookmarks...
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Comment by annah:
I rather like it. Especially the lighting and the concept :]

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Comment by Canadian_eh:
Very nice sandy! Wish you had more DOF on the clothesline, but nothing you can do riight? and it's all up to the voter right? anywho very nice shot!

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Comment by annah:
OoOOoHhhHHhh...so pretty :D

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Comment by Makka:
* Greetings from the Critique Club *

Hi Sandy.

Well, the main thing that bothers me with this photo is the rope of the clothes line. It just doesn't seem to sit right in the scheme of the photo. You came up with a great idea but maybe it just wasn't executed the right way to please all the voters. I guess it's a tricky one because you either base it on the lines of the rope or the lines of the wood in the background. Either way it meets the challenge.

I personally don't like the clothes line being blurred so much. I would of preferred to have seen the pegs brought more forward into the picture so they are a little more dominant. This may of helped getting the line working better in the foreground of the photo. I realise that your camera doesn't have any manual controls in regards to aperture settings but it was this which helped throw out the line in the foreground. Having those pegs moved forward and focussing on those would of focused the line more, blurred the background a bit and made those pegs pop out.

I think the lighting has worked well and is nicely balanced and the colours sit nicely. Some people may not of liked the border being so thick and could of marked you down a bit for that. I like borders but I find this one slightly too thick.

Not one of your best entries but a solid one none the less. Keep at it and best of luck with future challenges.

Neil

Roses Make Lovely Bookmarks...
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Comment by sanx:
This needs some explanation. I changed the title just before submission and forgot about the comments written earlier. There's actually a story behind the picture to explain why a rose on music is an unexpected find. My friend is obsessed with the movie The Phantom of the Opera and I listened to Liszt often at the time, and I guess the romantic gushiness rubbed off--this is the story about the shot: a pianist comes back to her open music book to find that some one (perhaps a phantom) left a rose. Maybe I should have tied the rose with black ribbon or something.

Now I have to finish reading Orwell to get rid out of my sappy sentimental mood.

;p

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Comment by otisXmike:
I think this shot works really well, the lighting is really nice... as are the colors. I think I'd have to disagree with you though, you look like an artist to me.

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Comment by sanx:
I as ticked off more at my blindness for not noticing the weird cubic thing going on in the clouds than getting DQ'd...again. Hah. Rebel.

The halo aroud the couple was intentional. Ish. As for the weird cubism thing, something went wonky in the resizing or saving for web or filtering. One of those. I probably didn't notice it because I looked at it too long; it was one of those things where you look at something until you don't see it at all.

This would have done all right if not for technicalities. Oh well. There's a better version on my deviantart account.

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Comment by posthumous:
Nice abstract! You were an artist when you took this shot. I gave it a 7.

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Comment by JulieG:
Nice colors. Not sure about the front part of the line being out of focus. I'd have preferred it sharper, but that's probably just me.

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Comment by BeckyT:
Great idea