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Challenge: Still Life II (Basic Editing III)
Collection: Challenge entries 2006
Camera: Fujifilm FinePix S9000
Location: NJ
Date: May 15, 2006
Aperture: f/4.5
ISO: 80
Shutter: 0.002s
Galleries: Still Life, Floral
Date Uploaded: May 13, 2006

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Statistics
Place: 223 out of 338
Avg (all users): 4.7664
Avg (commenters): 4.0000
Avg (participants): 4.4810
Avg (non-participants): 4.9333
Views since voting: 808
Views during voting: 275
Votes: 214
Comments: 10
Favorites: 0


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06/01/2006 06:10:44 AM
Sorry to get to you so late,

I'm not sure how this works as a Still life - its not an arranged composition (or if it is, you can't tell from the crop). Having said that, its a good floral, even with the difficult exposure conditions - with such a bright background, you've done well to expose the flowers well.

I think all it boils down to is that the majority of voters will have not considered it a still life. Sorry, but I don't really have anything to add to what everyone else has been saying
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05/29/2006 02:10:52 PM
[[trading post]]

this is a nice flower pic, but as a still life it's not working.

the defenition of still life is some arrangement of different items set up somwhere, bot a picture of a single type of flowers do not count as still life.

if it were arrangement of flowers of different kind, then it would have worked as a still life, but not with that angle, still lifes are usually a bit downwards angle, like when the painter is standin besides the table with the arrangement looking down at it, he doesn't paint it from an angle where he's looking up.

the picture however is well lit and a nice picture, the background is a bit dull though.
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05/28/2006 06:23:16 PM
Trading Post

Overall, I don't think this is your best work...and I am sure you were hurt because DPC voters probably don't regard this as a still life. I didn't vote for this, but I probably would have given it a 4 I'm sorry to say.
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05/25/2006 10:58:11 PM
hello again,

i think you had 2 major problems with this shot and neither of them are your fault.

1st, dpc hates flowers.
2nd, dpc thinks flowers are not still life.

other than that i think you would have done well. i gave it good marks. it is a nice shot. i like the soft clouds mostly. they add to the "softness" of the tulips.
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05/25/2006 05:53:49 PM
Trading Post -
This was probably attacked hard for DNMC. I believe I scored it lower for that reason myself. Overall the shot did not really appeal to me. The brightness of the sky seems to take away from the colors on the flowers. They just arent vibrant enough. As a general flower shot I think I would have liked to have seen a bit further down the stems and a bit less sky.
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05/25/2006 12:11:44 AM
Trading Post comment
I didn't enter or vote in this challenge; without looking at your comments, I'm betting you got hit with a lot of DNMC with respect to it not being a viewer's idea of a still life. I see it more as a picture of flowers. In that respect, I like the angle you chose, but am not as fond of the overall composition - I can't really put my finger on it, but I think it needs either a lot less or a lot more sky. I like the subtle gradation of the sky. You may want to try to bring that out a bit more.
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05/24/2006 11:35:42 PM
--Trading Post--
Nicely lit, nicely focused, and nicely exposed. My only issue with this one was that it did not meet my expectations for a still life. Call it jaded from those damned high school art classes, but I think that a still life should be an arranged composition.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
05/22/2006 09:24:57 PM
Back lit doesn't work for me in this situation.
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05/18/2006 01:36:24 PM
This does not meet the challenge - inanimate but not an arranged composition.
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05/17/2006 10:16:03 AM
very close to not meeting challenge.
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