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Where the bluegrass grows
Where the bluegrass grows
wildirishman64


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Country Life II (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Fujifilm FinePix S7000
Location: Central Kentucky
Date: Feb 10, 2006
Aperture: f/6.3
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/450
Galleries: Animals, Rural
Date Uploaded: Feb 10, 2006

Rural life in Eastern Kentucky, biscuits and gravy, it's all about "Country"!

Statistics
Place: 215 out of 219
Avg (all users): 4.1415
Avg (commenters): 4.2143
Avg (participants): 3.9717
Avg (non-participants): 4.3113
Views since voting: 875
Views during voting: 291
Votes: 212
Comments: 33
Favorites: 0


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02/24/2006 11:00:29 PM
* Greetings from the Critique Club *

First up! Welcome to the DPC community and congrats on your first entry!

You learnt a very hard lesson here with your first photo. It suffered here obviously because of the size of the image. As per the comments you received, always take advantage of the 640 x 640 size. It's great to see that in your second challenge entry you took note of this and it scored so much better.

Looking at the picture itself I find the fence in the foreground somewhat distracting. It would of been nice to have had it framed so that it wasn't in the image or to have cropped it out with software.

The colours of the image look really nice though it's hard to tell just how sharp it is because of the size limitation you have put on it. I find the sky looks slightly overblown as well (only slightly)!

The overall image portrays a tranquil farm setting and it's very peaceful. It was really the size here that didn't allow people (myself included) to take it all in and admire it to it's full potential.

Best of luck with your future entries and obviously the lessons you have learned here will take you a long way. Well done.

Neil
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
02/19/2006 09:49:40 PM
Bigger !!!!
02/19/2006 09:53:35 AM
use the full 640.... hard to see
02/19/2006 08:14:57 AM
Nice photo, a bit too small for my aging eyes
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02/18/2006 10:31:44 PM
A neat shot with all of the lines of fencing and horses. Unfortunately, it's a bit too small to really be able to appreciate all of the details.
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02/18/2006 04:56:26 PM
small..what are those animals?
02/18/2006 03:50:04 PM
Would be much more striking as a larger photo
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02/18/2006 12:00:27 AM
Make it bigger next time. 640
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02/17/2006 08:27:57 PM
Yes. This is the landscape that goes with bluegrass. Effective shot but small size is a problem.
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02/17/2006 09:53:19 AM
The image is too small to enjoy the view. The composition looks nice.
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02/16/2006 10:20:54 PM
i guess a fellow kentuckian? me too.
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02/16/2006 09:36:39 PM
too tiny
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02/16/2006 08:06:00 PM
You put yourself at a great disadvantage with such a small thumbnail. Look in the tutorials for proper techniques to submit a photo. Looks quite nice but I think a different crop may have been helpful.
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02/16/2006 03:47:52 AM
A little too small to really tell whats going on could be a nice photo with the fence lines running in all directions.
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02/15/2006 10:39:17 PM
You're gonna get burned for such a small picture (even though it is pretty good). 6
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02/15/2006 07:52:47 PM
The photo is small so it's hard to really appreciate the detals of the farm.
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02/15/2006 07:24:07 AM
It's just too small to effectively rate. Sorry!
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02/14/2006 02:44:34 PM
A nice broad view of a pastoral scene. Pic size needs to take advantage of the full 640 pixels on the longest side to let people see the picture better.
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02/14/2006 06:21:45 AM
Sorry to small to rate it.
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02/13/2006 10:07:51 PM
Its too bad this is a little small. This is a good photo.
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02/13/2006 09:08:33 PM
Great picture. Should have made it bigger.
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02/13/2006 08:13:06 PM
shouldn't have knocked this down in sizw so much. Can't really see any detail to vote.
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02/13/2006 08:02:18 PM
Sorry dude/dudette. You've committed the cardinal sin of not using as much of the allowable entry size as possible. You'll be heavily penalised by the voters for this. See a link in the FAQ on how to best resize your entries and wish you better luck on your next entry
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02/13/2006 05:56:35 PM
Good picture..but why so small?
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02/13/2006 04:13:56 PM
This picture has no impct due to size, another thing to take into account is straigtening when a fenceline creates the frame for the shot.
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02/13/2006 03:55:26 PM
This looks like Lexington Kentucky ??
This is a beautiful shot , I just wish you had size it 640 X 427 or 640 X 480 .
It is much to small. I will not take off for the size. I am going to give you a 7 for this photo.
Diana ( Go Cat's) !!!
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02/13/2006 01:39:23 PM
I voted you a 3.
Yes I know, very low, but this is too small to judge, keep in mind that you can post pics up to 640 pixels!
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02/13/2006 11:08:55 AM
Too small, too bad - nice photo.
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02/13/2006 09:59:51 AM
too small
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02/13/2006 06:37:13 AM
What a shame, as this is such a great image, but so hard to see it at this size.....
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02/13/2006 01:46:13 AM
This would have been better in larger format. 640 0n the long side...4
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02/13/2006 12:27:19 AM
Aawww, such a shame this photo is so tiny! Make sure to use at least very close to your allowance of 640 pixels on the long side.
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02/13/2006 12:23:17 AM
GOSH, I wish this was a larger pic!
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