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Challenge: High Contrast (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Kodak CX6200
Location: A spectacular garden in johannesburg, south africa
Date: Aug 29, 2005
Galleries: Abstract, Floral
Date Uploaded: Aug 30, 2005

When i was on holiday in jo'burg, south africa. My sisters house has very strange flowers, and special herbs growing there.

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Place: 335 out of 343
Avg (all users): 4.2559
Avg (commenters): 4.2857
Avg (participants): 4.2000
Avg (non-participants): 4.3511
Views since voting: 933
Views during voting: 338
Votes: 254
Comments: 8
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09/18/2005 02:19:03 AM
*Critique Club*

I'm not really sure what to say here. The post processing here looks to be way over the top for my personal tastes, and also makes it hard to look at.
Focus on the flowers looks really soft. Unappealingly so. The background (the ground) looks sharper than your subject. Did you do this on purpose for some reason? Without any photographers comments describing your intent with the photo, I'm not sure if this is what you wanted or not.
There is way more detail in the ground than in the flowers, which makes the ground more interesting in my view than the flowers are.
The color of the photo doesn't really seem to serve a purpose either. Were you just trying out the effect? Was your intent to have the photo blown out and red?
There is definately contrast in the photo, however, I'm not so sure it's high contrast. blowing out one area of the photo, to me, doesn't make it high contrast, unless there are dark areas to contrast it. While your background has some darker areas, there really isn't much DARK Darks. It's kind of a medium dark. If that makes sense.
While the flowers take up most of the photo, the center is really bright and draws a lot of attention there. To me, that is the focal point of the photo. Maybe if it were off centered a bit, that would draw the attention off center, and then our eyes could be drawn TO the flowers. Creating not only an interesting angle, but also some motion as well.
I think this is a worthy idea for the challenge, but really needs something to make it spark.
~Heather~
 Comments Made During the Challenge
09/11/2005 09:22:44 PM
For me, I wish the flowers were more in focus and a bit less...hmmm...editing in a photo program as some of the highlights seem overly done.
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09/11/2005 05:47:30 PM
cool angle. nice job.
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09/10/2005 12:54:45 AM
Wow interesting, the contrast is good.
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09/09/2005 11:42:16 AM
Please don't get me wrong here, I mean this as a constructive comment:
I don't realy see a focus point, so I don't know where to look.
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09/08/2005 04:17:59 PM
Very neat POV.
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09/07/2005 06:37:25 PM
nice artistic impression... a bit too blown out for me though... :)
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09/05/2005 10:22:36 AM
I'm baffled. What is it? The title isn't helping me. It looks a bit like my hen-n-chicks plant.
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