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Bougainvillea Bokeh
Bougainvillea Bokeh
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Challenge: Bokeh III (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Canon EOS-300D Rebel
Lens: Canon EF 75-300mm f/4.0-5.6 III
Location: Johannesburg, South Africa
Date: Oct 22, 2006
Aperture: 4.5
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/400
Galleries: Nature, Floral
Date Uploaded: Oct 23, 2006

It's summer time here in sunny South Africa, and no-one is happier about this than I!!!
Shot in RAW.
Adjusted sharpness, contrast and saturation in DPP.
Resized, and added border in PS.

Statistics
Place: 332 out of 440
Avg (all users): 4.6905
Avg (commenters): 4.3846
Avg (participants): 4.6746
Avg (non-participants): 4.7063
Views since voting: 707
Views during voting: 337
Votes: 252
Comments: 13
Favorites: 0


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 Comments Made During the Challenge
10/28/2006 09:14:10 AM
Very nice background, but there isnt quite enough of the foreground plant in sharp focus to really justify it being in the shot at all. With the leaves extending a reasonable distance back into the shot, and fact that the leaves are pointing in a lot of different directions makes it hard to get a lot of the green in focus, while still maintaining the background blur, so what I would have done if possible, is isolate a smaller amount of the grean foreground leaves, perhaps by zooming (preferably) or moving closer. That way the sharp field of depth you do have would be put to better use, and more of the foreground would be in focus. Still a lovely shot, well done :)
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10/27/2006 03:33:02 PM
Not a bad bokeh but your subject is off focus...
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10/27/2006 10:17:34 AM
has bokeh, but the foreground elements are OOF.
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10/27/2006 09:18:21 AM
Nothing is in focus.
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10/27/2006 01:43:09 AM
Excellent bokeh for the background! For me, I wish the subject, the green plant, were in sharper focus overall.
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10/26/2006 09:43:17 PM
I feel the plant is not focused enough.
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10/26/2006 05:14:28 PM
I would like this better if the leaves were more in focus.
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10/25/2006 03:43:49 PM
This would be better if the foliage in the foreground were in focus and not so highly exposed, I think.
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10/25/2006 03:01:57 PM
The bokeh's really fine, just wish there had been a more interesting subject.
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10/25/2006 11:06:44 AM
Colors are real nice but if there is main object shouldnt it be in focus?
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10/25/2006 09:59:54 AM
Out of focus subject and overbearing bokeh
10/25/2006 07:33:41 AM
I like the pictures but I can't make out what is in focus. It looks like it is either at the very far left or posibly cropped out.
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10/25/2006 03:45:27 AM
This is very nice with the composition, the colors, the contrast and the bokeh but, I think it would do better if the leaves were more sharply focused. One of my higher scores for this challenge.
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