Shot outside late morning. Auto Contrast, Auto Levels, Added slight gaussian blur to outer edges, resized, sharpened, sharpened more, bordered, saved for web.
The goal was to find good shots. When I saw this one it screamed artsy at me. I wanted to pick up on the very shallow DOF and lighting combination. This one will go on the living room wall, abeit not QUITE so sharp as here. I like it softer.
Statistics
Place: 268 out of 712 Avg (all users): 5.9377 Avg (commenters): 6.0000 Avg (participants): 5.8736 Avg (non-participants): 6.1429 Views since voting: 1329 Views during voting: 468 Votes: 353 Comments: 24 Favorites: 1 (view)
This is a lovely image, Ches! Congratulations on a personal best score. I love the soft blue tones and the fresh clear water droplet. The shallow depth of field is beautiful!
you shold look at this tutorial. Your photo file size is 21 kb, and you could have used up to 200 kb. This wold have smooth out the details in your image and will help your scores.
Beautiful photo with nasty compression artifacts. You realize your file is only 24KB? Remember, the maximum is 200KB, so compressing down to 24KB is unnecessary and just damages the image.
I like the focus in this, and good capture of the water drops. I'm seeing a weird texture, though, and I can't tell if it is artifacts from resizing (not typical artifacts, if that is what it is), the texture of the flower, or a filter you have added. It's mildly distracting, but otherwise a very nice shot.
Add photograph to your favorites
Add photographer to your favorites
Photographer found comment helpful.
