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Pregnant Guppies in Pond in a Japanese Garden; Saratoga, CA
Pregnant Guppies in Pond in a Japanese Garden; Saratoga, CA
sjgleah


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Transparency (Classic Editing)
Camera: Olympus C-2100UZ
Location: Hakone Gardens, Saratoga, CA
Date: Jun 29, 2002
Aperture: f/8
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/1000
Date Uploaded: Jun 30, 2002

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Statistics
Place: 116 out of 148
Avg (all users): 4.4103
Avg (commenters): 4.7333
Avg (participants): 4.3333
Avg (non-participants): 4.4762
Views since voting: 3297
Votes: 234
Comments: 15
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07/07/2002 12:41:00 PM
Nice shot, I like the reflections off the water in the lower corner.
07/06/2002 03:44:00 PM
It looks too busy to me with all the flowers. I'd try cropping the right part into a vertical orientation, with just a few flowers on the left forming the border.
07/03/2002 07:14:00 PM
A very nice photo except for the blown out daisies. I know it's hard to do within the confines of this contest, but your photo would have been more effective if they wern't so overexposed. If your camera has the adjustments, possibly selecting low contrast and selecting 1/2 stop less would have given you some data in the daisy petals and not underexposed the darker areas too much. Then you coulld have added some contrast in Photoshop or whatever program you're using.
07/03/2002 02:27:00 PM
cool, i'm about to get a pond in my garden, so i was interested to see the pond! your title points to the guppies, but if i look at the photo, the flowers are the much more dominant feature in the shot. i'm not sure what you could've done to make the guppies stand out from the background (considering you can't change the colors of the background or the fish), so i can't really give you any tips. maybe zooming in on them so they become more prominant in the shot? -- gr8photos (4)
07/03/2002 02:22:00 PM
I was going to ask if you were a guppy OB, but yes, they are pregnant.
Nice photo, too bad about the daisies (four are way tooo bright)
Photo 7 Transparency 7 total 7 swash
07/02/2002 04:58:00 PM
I think this photo is a little over exposed but I like the concept. = 7 - jmsetzler
07/02/2002 02:23:00 PM
This is tricky. I know what's "wrong" with this shot (= what could be improved to make it a better picture) but I don't know how to fix it.
The flowers are the brightest element in this shot (actually over exposed) so the eye naturally goes straight to them - especially as the brightest part is almost dead centre. This detracts attention from the main subject which is comapratively very dark.
I suspect the only way round this would have been to wait for the sun to go in and/or use a reflector to boost the rhs.
You might try reversing the pciture left to right. Western viewers tend to "read" a photo left to right and stop when they hit the point of interest/brightest bit. However, for some reason, reversing pictures often makes them look "wrong".
07/01/2002 08:46:00 PM
the flowers take up too mach of the picture. it could be better if the water was more visable (don't ask me how). nice idea though!
07/01/2002 08:12:00 PM
THe fish really don't stand out enough.
07/01/2002 06:41:00 PM
great fish shot. I like the flowers, but they are a little overexposed.
07/01/2002 04:42:00 PM
Seems a bit over and under exposed. Sorry but the white is fried here. This happens when shooting both bright and dark at the same time. The camera is going to _glom_ onto the the lightest object it finds.
07/01/2002 01:54:00 PM
Not bad. I like the sparkling stars at the bottom. Just a little too much exposure. Still nice photo! Good work.
Ruthann
07/01/2002 01:48:00 PM
creative 4 interesting 4 focus 4 framing 6 = 4
07/01/2002 11:22:00 AM
Flowers rather over-lit
07/01/2002 06:48:00 AM
I like the idea. The Flowers were a little overexposed though.


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