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"I love a sunburnt country"
"I love a sunburnt country"
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Challenge: Love II (Basic Editing)
Camera: Nikon D200
Lens: Nikon AF Micro-Nikkor 105mm f/2.8D
Location: my house, seoul, korea
Date: Feb 15, 2007
Aperture: f16
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1.3
Galleries: Abstract, History
Date Uploaded: Feb 16, 2007

this is a homage to another shot in dpchallenge ... but the other shot, i think, is much better.

simply done, i put a layer of glass above the flag, put some water drops on it (carefully, to keep them in nice circles) and shoot.

far from perfect, but it's a shot i like.

(sorry about the marks on the glass. i didn't see them when i was shooting and because this is a basic challenge i can't edit them out!)

if i had a chance to do it again, i'd get a much smaller flag. it's not obvious that the flag is australian.

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Place: 40 out of 232
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03/05/2007 08:32:42 PM


Written by Dorothea MacKellar

Eric Woo its the love of his country...Australia

The love of field and coppice,
Of green and shaded Lanes,
Of ordered woods and gardens,
Is running in your veins;
Strong love of grey-blue distance,
Brown streams and soft, dim skies -
I know but cannot share it,
My love is otherwise.

I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of drought and flooding rains,
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel sea,
Her beauty and her terror -
The wide brown land for me.

The tragic ring-barked forests
Stark white beneath the moon,
The sapphire-misted mountains,
The hot gold hush of noon.
Green tangle of the brushes
Where lithe lianas coil,
An orchids deck the tree-tops
And ferns the crimson soil.

Core of my heart, my country!
Her pitiless blue sky,
When sick at heart around us
We see the cattle die -
But then the grey clouds gather
And we can bless again
The drumming of an army,
The steady, soaking rain.

Core of my heart, my country!
Land of the Rainbow Gold,
For flood and fire and famine,
She pays us back threefold;
Over the thirsty paddocks,
Watch, after many days,
The filmy veil of greenness
That thickens as we gaze.

An opal-hearted country,
A wilful, lavish land -
All you who have not loved her,
You will not understand -
Though Earth holds many splendours,
Wherever I may die,
I know to what brown Country
My homing thoughts will fly.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
03/04/2007 01:13:34 PM
Hey there from the Critique Club

Camera Work/Technical: Superb. Your colors are vivid, hinting that your white balance was properly chosen and adjusted, and your focus is nice and crisp. Your depth of field use nicely isolates the droplets while still allowing us to feel what you have in your background.

Lighting: Your lighting is also very nice. You have achieved a very nice, evenly lit image with no blown highlights or detail loss to shadows.

Composition/Content: I agree with you that a smaller flag would have worked much better, or perhaps moving the glass farther from the flag when shooting.

My Opinion: I am sure that it is me missing something, but I don't understand the title. Also, I just don't get the feeling of love jumping out at me when the image loads. While the score is on the high side of average and the image is well-done from a technical standpoint, I think that this type of refraction image is a bit overdone. While refraction is a valuable tool in the photography tool chest, the ongoing struggle for us photographers is finding new and creative ways to photograph refraction. This one in particular is too much of an emulation of Setzler's "Liberty and Justice" from 2002. I added it to my favorites back in April of 2006.


Eric
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 Comments Made During the Challenge
02/27/2007 12:29:13 PM
Nice try on a JMSetzler photo however I would like to see the Union Jack in the center of the background with mini union jacks int he drops. Well Above Average Attempt 8
  Photographer found comment helpful.
02/24/2007 08:13:20 AM
woowww
really creative shot!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
02/24/2007 12:00:05 AM
Another Amazing Photo!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
02/22/2007 10:51:00 AM
for country and queen (the band)5
  Photographer found comment helpful.
02/21/2007 11:28:05 PM
Wow, this is so cool! 10!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
02/21/2007 06:22:20 PM
...a land of sweeping plains...

great image
  Photographer found comment helpful.
02/21/2007 03:29:56 PM
Not the first of it's kind but pulled off very well. I've been wanting to try this! I just need a good piece of glass...
  Photographer found comment helpful.
02/21/2007 10:27:34 AM
An incredible shot. My favorite so far.

Daniel.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
02/21/2007 02:02:46 AM
The exact idea and set up was done in the first "Transparency challenge", but with a different flag. I am afraid it is almost the same.

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