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Grief
Grief
JuliBoc


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Challenge: Personification II (Advanced Editing V)
Camera: Olympus C-765UZ
Location: Delray Beach, FL
Date: Feb 4, 2007
Aperture: 2.8
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/30
Galleries: Floral
Date Uploaded: Feb 4, 2007

My idea for Personification was to have a live flower grieving over a fallen blossom. I just happened to have a beautiful Phragmipedium in bloom that had lost a blossom a couple of weeks ago, and for some reason I had saved that dead flower.

Neat Image
Crop slightly
Clone out a little dust
Levels
Add border, resize, smart sharpen, save for web.

A print version is available with some minor changes suggested in the comments below.


Statistics
Place: 54 out of 218
Avg (all users): 5.9181
Avg (commenters): 7.3333
Avg (participants): 5.5854
Avg (non-participants): 6.2247
Views since voting: 1168
Views during voting: 291
Votes: 171
Comments: 16
Favorites: 2 (view)


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02/13/2007 07:27:12 PM
Originally posted by noraneko:

I think this is a seriously underrated shot. In fact, I find it the most artistic of any of your photos. The lighting is superb, and it is obvious you had a concept in mind, which you managed to execute quite well.

I see from your comments that you cropped slightly. I would be very interested to see the original, as I think the photo could benefit from more negative space on the right side.


I only cropped a very tiny bit off the bottom because the edge of the backdrop was visible. I like the idea of more negative space on the right. I will try to create that by increasing the size of the canvas.
02/13/2007 02:51:55 PM
I think this is a seriously underrated shot. In fact, I find it the most artistic of any of your photos. The lighting is superb, and it is obvious you had a concept in mind, which you managed to execute quite well.

I see from your comments that you cropped slightly. I would be very interested to see the original, as I think the photo could benefit from more negative space on the right side.
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02/13/2007 12:19:05 AM
When I first saw this picture, I thought it was Virgin Mary holding little baby Jesus. Oh well. I like your interpretation. Wondeful lines and colors. Good focus. But really it is the two purple lines that really work for me.
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02/12/2007 06:18:32 PM
those extra lines that Jeff mentioned were the difference between a 7 and a 9 in my score. they give your photo a beautiful abstract composition of lines... where did I hear that before?
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02/12/2007 07:15:15 AM
Very nice shot Julianne. It took a second to see it but it but it is very well executed.
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02/12/2007 01:54:21 AM
Beautiful composition of lines (as well)
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02/12/2007 12:38:41 AM
Beautiful find and nicely shot! I'm of two minds about the extra stems. Part of me wants them cloned out to make the subject flowers stand out. But part of me wants to leave them in to make this a found scene within a natural setting, which is more interesting.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
02/11/2007 06:46:57 PM
Quite emotive posing, and nicely composed as a picture. I might have cloned out the brown stem at the upper right, although that might have left too much negative space there. It almost looks like it's peeking in on the scene and it's just curious, not sympathetic or grieving. Or I'm reading too much into a stem ;-)
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02/11/2007 06:19:17 PM
remarkably complex Pieta-like image. 9
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02/11/2007 06:02:02 PM
maybe if the head of the flower was a looking a little lower (head hung low)IMO, I like the border effect
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02/11/2007 04:28:37 PM
I like - 7
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02/11/2007 03:45:05 PM
Nice colors
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02/10/2007 09:57:40 PM
this looks very Pink Floyd
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02/06/2007 08:23:06 AM
It made me really sad! Great light!
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02/05/2007 04:09:06 PM
Very nice, sucks you in to take a second look.
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02/05/2007 04:19:11 AM
nice idea
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