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Challenge: 2-Second Exposure (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Sony DSC-F828
Location: Hollywood, FL
Date: Mar 17, 2006
Aperture: F2.2
ISO: 64
Shutter: 2.0
Galleries: Performance, Macro
Date Uploaded: Mar 17, 2006

Photo was taken of Impatient Plants that were back lighted by a Solar Powered spotlight. Camera was set on macro, and shot in Raw Mode. Editing accomplished in Micrografx Picture Publisher. Cropped, sharpened, background blacked out, border added and Light Source used from PP Light Studio. Shutter Spead at 2 seconds.


Statistics
Place: 185 out of 192
Avg (all users): 4.3066
Avg (commenters): 3.3571
Avg (participants): 4.1290
Avg (non-participants): 4.4454
Views since voting: 1076
Views during voting: 314
Votes: 212
Comments: 16
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04/02/2006 07:41:08 PM
Kari from the critique club. I am Doing this from work Larry so please forgive the lack of my normal template.

First impression:

Interesting pic ... makes me want more of the flower and less of the background.

Composition
I feel there are issues with this is not too bad .. you have hit thirds with both flowers ... but it is the huge gap that just doesn't sit quite right.

Technical

This is a grainy picture ... I am not sure why, it sounds as if it was well lit .. but I think the ISO setting is too low for the level of light you had. Maybe adjusting this may have helped (this is a guess and an area I am still learning too). Some of your pixels appear to be very significant .. this happens in a number of different ways including when you blow up the size of a picture, or even zoom in so much that you can see every little one.

Subject:

Meets the challenge - you did say it was 2 second shutter speed :)

Moving onwards and upwards:

Not your highest scoring ... but it was I am sure an adventuresome shot. Well done on the effort and again I always look forward to seeing more of your work.

Any questions on the critique drop me a PM

Cheers
Kari

Message edited by author 2006-04-02 19:42:53.
 Comments Made During the Challenge
03/26/2006 10:32:43 PM
They look so lonely in the dark! Bumping up.
03/26/2006 07:42:10 PM
I'm not sure what happened, but the picture is very pixellated. Also, the composition is lacking.
03/25/2006 05:28:17 PM
I guess I'm not the only one to tell you to use less compression. the otherwise promising looking picture is incredibly pixelated - or was that intentional?!

better luck next time
03/25/2006 05:12:54 PM
Pixel problem.
03/25/2006 04:53:48 PM
Those are the biggest chunks of pixel I have ever seen. Did you enlarge this a whole bunch?
03/25/2006 12:13:40 AM
This has very visible pixelation.
03/24/2006 01:19:00 PM
Border takes away i think, and the focus / exposure is a bit off. It seems pixelated to me.
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03/23/2006 02:38:30 AM
this is way to low res. even for the web it displays all chunky and pixelated.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
03/22/2006 04:39:07 PM
pixels are a bit weird???
  Photographer found comment helpful.
03/21/2006 02:36:32 PM
I don't get any sense of 2-seconds from this.
03/21/2006 07:26:34 AM
You got some seriously bad artefacts in the shot and I see it´s only 11kb, try to make use of the full 150kb you are allowed next time and your score will go way up, the quality of this image is horrible as it is, sorry.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
03/20/2006 07:35:07 PM
This shot is over processed. Not sure what to suggest to fix it. Sorry.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
03/20/2006 11:29:02 AM
Hmmmm.. not sure what happened here, but there are tons of jpeg artifacts and you can barely see any detail of the image.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
03/20/2006 01:48:39 AM
this is a great shot, but I a not sure it is demonstrating the sprit of the 2 second challenge...while it may have been a 2 second exposure, it might as well have been a 1/200 exposure if you know what I mean
  Photographer found comment helpful.
03/20/2006 12:36:44 AM
The low key lighting has potential, but it's heavily compressed so there's a lot of JPEG artifacts going on. Maybe make use of the full 150kb limit next time so you can present the picture as well as possible?
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