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Lying in the grass, next to the mausoleum.
Lying in the grass, next to the mausoleum.
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Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Branch (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Canon PowerShot Pro1
Location: Near the bus stop outside my house. Kailua, Hawaii
Date: Sep 5, 2005
Aperture: f 4.0
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/250
Galleries: Emotive, Landscape
Date Uploaded: Sep 6, 2005

Hue/Saturation, Curves, Shapness, Brightness/Contrast, Cropping.

Statistics
Place: 404 out of 432
Avg (all users): 4.0135
Avg (commenters): 4.0000
Avg (participants): 3.7697
Avg (non-participants): 4.2690
Views since voting: 809
Views during voting: 367
Votes: 297
Comments: 21
Favorites: 0


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09/20/2005 10:43:55 PM
Greetings from the Critique Club

If this image was in a modern art museum, people would be Ahhh-ing and Ohhh-ing over it.

It is original, uses interesting colors and tells a story. It is unfortunate that the voters saw what they considered "technical lapses" instead of the story-telling aspect. You EXIF data and your photographers comments tell me you achieved exactly what you wanted to achieve.

While I think you have an original photographic mind, for DPC it might be worthwhile to try more realistic/conventional images - if you want to score higher.

I, for one, will look forward to seeing your further contributions to DPC, whatever the road you choose to travel.
 Comments Made During the Challenge
09/13/2005 06:38:05 PM
The dof and composition in this are confusing, though it's on topic. The colors seem odd and the exposure is blown out without details to retain my interest.
09/13/2005 01:05:06 PM
not comment
09/12/2005 09:12:16 PM
Moody and mysterious. Probably just as you planned it. It worked!
09/12/2005 06:20:55 AM
The foreground is too distracting for me.
09/11/2005 10:01:44 AM
Strange colour, maybe push the colour a bit more with hue and saturation to bring out the odd pinkness in the sky? Seems to work with the purple CA on the grass.

I'm afraid I can't say I like the picture much though, sorry.
09/09/2005 11:40:32 AM
Interesting idea. I think it would have been more successful had you been lying closerto a branch (or if the foreground is a branch, it should have been in focus).
09/09/2005 05:22:43 AM
I see grass and a tree with a forked trunk...Sorry but I dont really understand what you're trying to do here.
09/08/2005 08:54:38 PM
not sure where this is going. Forked tree but blocked by blades of grass?
09/08/2005 03:54:10 PM
I feel this already enigmatic photo suffers from odd choices made in post-processing. The sky has become quite oddly pink and the blue fringing attracts attention. These color shifts could add interest to an already strong photo with a well-defined subject, just not this one.
09/08/2005 01:08:53 PM
object in foreground is only taking away from this shot
09/08/2005 11:51:42 AM
Is this the only branch you could find?
09/08/2005 12:17:12 AM
Isn't your title part of a song??? I don't know...It's really neat though, I like how the branches in front are out of focus and yet you can see the tree clearly. Very nice.
09/07/2005 11:24:09 PM
I find the forground very distracting. Overall the wall and tree do not provide enough focus to keep me in the picture. I do like the dreamy coloring. 3
09/07/2005 08:35:55 PM
interesting perspective
09/07/2005 08:08:58 PM
I like the coloring but I dont' like how the thing up close isnt in focus but then the thing far away is. It is a little distracting.
09/07/2005 02:42:06 PM
I really dont like the colors! It seems a little bit overcontrasted and there is way to much going on for my taste! But yet its a neat idea!
09/07/2005 01:11:56 PM
Nothing interesting here to focus on. Blurry and confusing.
09/07/2005 12:17:10 PM
The grass close up is distracting, but the colors are amazing. Wish the brush was out of the way of the lens. Nice Job.
09/07/2005 10:12:55 AM
Don't know if it was intentional, but this title is also lyrics to a song by a band called Fall Out Boy. The song is Sugar We're Going Down. LOL.
09/07/2005 12:58:42 AM
the branches in the front are too blurry to make out the picture, IMO. It probably would have worked better if the background was blurry and the foreground had the tree that you wanted to take.


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