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Miss Daisy and Mr. Bee
04/20/2011 06:41:15 AM
Miss Daisy and Mr. Bee
by allany

Comment:
Originally posted by paulbtlw:

Greetings from the Critique Club:

This image scored pretty well in the challenge, largely down to your colours and a most excellent title.

I'm going to be a little harsh in my critique here, so hold onto your hat! I feel it is important to do so because you have nailed the overall composition and some different technical choices would have turned what I think is a poor macro shot into a really good one - you've already done the hard stuff; you deserve a better outcome!

First of all, I don't know how much macro experience you have so I apologise if I'm about to tell you stuff you already know. I've spent hours using my specialist macro equipment and know how hard it is. Technical considerations are so important.

First off, look at your aperture, f/5.6 gives you way too small a depth of field to have any hope of catching the bee, you've given yourself about 5mm of depth of field, anything outside that will be blurred. Nice bee, lovely flowers and what do we get? The bees butt! Something like f/16 on the same shot and I suspect you'd have given us a lot more. I wouldn't advise a much slower shutter speed for this shot, so you may have needed to push the ISO a bit to make this work.

In terms of processing, the highlights on the petals seem to be robbed of detail, I don't know what software you have access to but recovering the highlights would have got you something back here. Also, various filters that enhance tonal contrast would have pulled out extra detail in these areas.

Overall, this is a shot that benefits from very fine composition and colouring but one that could have been a whole lot better with a different set up.

Best regards

Paul


Thanks for the critique. I don't have much experience on macro, so I welcome all your comments. These would help me a lot. Thanks again.
Sails after Sunset
02/19/2011 07:16:38 PM
Sails after Sunset
by GregoryB

Comment:
Great long exposure photo!
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Poems, upon request
02/19/2011 07:15:49 PM
Poems, upon request
by hahn23

Comment:
Very nice expression on the man's face... sure he loves what he is doing!
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Telling it how it was
02/19/2011 07:12:33 PM
Telling it how it was
by Abra

Comment:
Very lovely candid shot!
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Crouched
02/19/2011 07:11:25 PM
Crouched
by bjoern

Comment:
There is great emotion on this photo...
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Lohdi Rd, New Delhi
02/19/2011 07:10:47 PM
Lohdi Rd, New Delhi
by dougi555

Comment:
This photo emote great emotion...
The commute home
02/19/2011 07:02:39 PM
The commute home
by wolf

Comment:
Great panning!
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Work In Progress.....
02/19/2011 07:02:01 PM
Work In Progress.....
by miguel_migs

Comment:
Nice and very clear!
Skip
02/19/2011 07:00:01 PM
Skip2nd Place
by Paul

Comment:
Great silhouette!
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Twilight
09/20/2007 08:22:29 AM
Twilight
by Zippy

Comment:
Nice colours
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