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Southwest Pottery
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Challenge: Flowers (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Canon EOS-20D
Location: Williamstown, MA
Date: Jun 28, 2006
Galleries: Floral
Date Uploaded: Jun 28, 2006

 The pitcher is about 3 inches tall and usually hangs on the wall by my front door. Mom got it for me when she was on vacation somewhere out west. Always wanted to use it in a shot and this seemed right. Taken with the 60mm, one light level and straight on with the subject, diffused through a light tent. One shot is all I took. Processing was very simple - levels to absolute black and pure white, resize, save for web.

Hoped it would do better, but happy with the shot so not complaining. I can always use the pitcher again, the design on the other side is different.

Thanks to all for the votes and comments.

Statistics
Place: 143 out of 375
Avg (all users): 5.6980
Avg (commenters): 6.1818
Avg (participants): 5.5957
Avg (non-participants): 5.9344
Views since voting: 918
Views during voting: 263
Votes: 202
Comments: 14
Favorites: 0

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 07/15/2006 09:06:02 PM
Nice work. Great focus. The flowers really stand out against the BG (great contrast). The composition is very nice; although I'm compelled (as a former floral designer and artist) to suggest that an odd number of flowers would be better. Since the colors of vase and flowers are in different families, I converted this to B/W and cloned out the rose. I think it looks stunning that way, too.

Cool vase. Look forward to seeing you use it again.
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 07/10/2006 10:22:46 PM
Oh Chris!!! You are so right: This IS underrated!!!! The focus on this is literally to DIE for!! WOW!!!!

Where in the WORLD did they get 5.6 from this photo!!! Jeeeeeeeez.

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 07/10/2006 12:25:20 AM
Surprised this didn't finish higher. Great shot!
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
07/09/2006 05:00:01 PM
Very nice shot,good colors.
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 07/07/2006 02:20:38 AM
Now this is very good.....
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 07/05/2006 04:01:00 PM
Great photo. Colors are really nice. Great job!
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 07/05/2006 01:26:49 PM
Great Shot, nice composition and good use of colors. 8
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 07/05/2006 12:47:10 PM
Interesting composition, but the lighting is very uneven. The front flower is so bright and the dark one so dark that it feels very unbalanced. Sorry.
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 07/04/2006 10:53:43 PM
Great shot!
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 07/03/2006 11:06:34 PM
pretty good studio shot. I like the vase, but I feel like the large flower (daisy of some sort?) seems to blend together.
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 07/03/2006 09:28:31 PM
the big whie flower on its own would have been so dramatic, i think.
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 07/03/2006 06:18:18 PM
impressive still life well composed, great lighting and focus
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 07/03/2006 02:37:13 PM
Colours go well together.
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 07/03/2006 02:06:18 AM
Good Job!
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