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New Spring Growth
New Spring Growth
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Challenge: Something New III (Advanced Editing IV*)
Camera: Canon PowerShot G3
Location: Albuquerque, NM
Date: Apr 16, 2006
Aperture: f/4.5
Shutter: 1/1250 sec
Galleries: Nature, Floral
Date Uploaded: Apr 18, 2006

 One small piece of new growth on a snowball bush...the background is just a bunch of grey rocks (pretty standard front yard in New Mexico).

This is my first real attempt at advanced editing, and it is certainly nothing fancy. A little dodge and burn of the flower, some selective desat, that's about it (of course in addition to the normal levels, contrast, and such).

I don't expect this to do amazingly well, but I think it's a decent picture and I like it.

Statistics
Place: 84 out of 247
Avg (all users): 5.5660
Avg (commenters): 7.4000
Avg (participants): 5.4789
Avg (non-participants): 5.5979
Views since voting: 906
Views during voting: 332
Votes: 265
Comments: 12
Favorites: 0

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
04/25/2006 10:04:58 AM
Nice color and composition. Don't care for the border.
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 04/25/2006 04:58:41 AM
I like it alot, the color of the plant and the background, it just works for me. Very nice shot.
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 04/24/2006 11:36:49 PM
I think the border was a bad decision for this shot. While it does a good job of encasing the photograph, the color being almsot exactly that of the plant detracts from the impression that so much green makes against the field of white in the background, and again with the brown stake. Setting this aside, the color of the image is great, nice and simple. Excellent focus, and the bug makes it more interesting that it might have been.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/24/2006 12:21:23 PM
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 04/21/2006 11:18:09 PM
I love the vibrant greens of the picture; they contrast wonderfully with the background...which looks, actually, B&W. Is this image the result of selective-color processing? If so, is such editing allowed in this challenge?
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/21/2006 06:06:45 AM
Love the vibrant color in the plant.....
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/21/2006 04:59:34 AM
Very good shot, I esp like the colours and background.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/20/2006 01:24:22 PM
dislike border.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/19/2006 04:19:01 PM
Lovely hydrangea. It reminds me of a praying mantis, the way it's reaching out from the stalk. In this case I think the border works, as it keeps my eye from wandering off into the grey, and is small enough to be inobtrusive.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/19/2006 12:23:12 PM
I just love them hydrangia's, have a bunch myself in the garden.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/19/2006 06:39:43 AM
Wow, those greens stand out.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/19/2006 01:46:15 AM
I've seen a lot of plants and trees... Yes, they meet the challenge, but where is the creativity... It's the image that stands out from the rest that wins me over.
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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