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-Reduced saturation for yellows (making rocks in background grey)
Used slow shutter speed and zoomed in on the flower (one of my favorite techniques as you can probably tell, that make the picture seem as if it's in warp speed, ). I also used a flash to try and make the flower more clear but this was the best I could get it because of zooming in, But I still thought the result was pretty neat.
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wow... this is cool... i def dont understand how it works... how did you make it all cool and blurry without spot editing? nice picture though... very original
this is making me dizzy but the more I look the more I like. i think a cool title for this one would be falling in a dream, cause it is what my dreams look like. 8
You've missed the mark with this, according to Webster Minimalism is "a style or technique (as in music, literature, or design) that is characterized by extreme spareness and simplicity" There is way to much going on here with the blur forcing your into the center of the image. The subject is out of focus, it is too centered. Use the rule of thirds, lose the radial zoom technique focus sharply on the subject and reshoot, then you may have something.
I think this would have been a much more effective photo without the effect. Yes, it draws your eye to the flower, but when I got there, I was rather disappointed to find that nothing was in clear focus at all. I would love to see the photo in sharp focus.
This is a powerful way to address a centered composition....however...
It would be nice to see better focus on the flower since there is little rest for the eye, I just want some reward for all the work my mind must do. Unfortunately, there are points to rest on and they seem to be bits of sensor dust. In an advance editing challenge those could be easily addressed with cloning, of course.
I think the blurred effect and the flower being centered takes away some. The contrast between the stone and the flower would have carried this. It is eye catching.
Very interesting effect. Flower only interesting in that it did not suffer from the movement effect. You appear to have some dust on your image sensor which shows up at high f numbers on light backgrounds.
Interesting shot. I kind of like it. The color definitely stands out, and works well with the greys/neutral tones of the rest of the scene. The centered composition works very well in this case IMO. Not sure how the mass of voters will see it, it seems usually people favor crisp sharp pics, but I like it. A neat effect, I'm curious did you achieve this in camera or gaussian blur or something like that in editing? If you have the time and care to answer, feel free to PM me.
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