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Challenge: Low Key II (Basic Editing)
Camera: Canon EOS-30D
Lens: Canon EF 35-135mm f/4-5.6 USM
Location: Home
Date: Feb 25, 2007
Aperture: f29
ISO: 100
Shutter: 30\
Galleries: Abstract, Still Life
Date Uploaded: Feb 26, 2007

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Statistics
Place: 53 out of 359
Avg (all users): 5.8944
Avg (commenters): 7.1818
Avg (participants): 5.5143
Avg (non-participants): 6.1364
Views since voting: 1472
Views during voting: 281
Votes: 180
Comments: 13
Favorites: 1 (view)

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 03/14/2007 02:41:59 PM
Originally posted by Trinity_12_12:

Positives:
Nicely captured tones in a low-key image. Creative and very surrealistic photograph. Love the juxtaposition of the and use of a flower against with the strange watery background. This is a fine photograph.

Technicals:
Centering lighting on the flower is perfect. Tones are very nice. The distended stretching of the flower reflection is photographic genius. Basically centering it in the composition hurts its visual esthetics.

Unfortunately, like most of mine, this image is slightly oversharpened. There are a lot of digital "jaggies" in the water drops. That is to bad.

The challenge:
This image meets the challenge well but I would not be surprised to hear some voters suggest this is 'not low-key enough'. DPC voters can be narrow minded and flat out wrong at times and some of that may have affected your image in voting. I suspect framing played as much or more of a roll as that in lowering the score.

Suggestions:
Correct the "jaggies". There is no substitude for technical excellence. A slight framing change would help to offset the flower from a centered position in the frame. This could be achieved by croping closer to the rightmost water drop and adding more 'negative space' to the left side if that is possible. It is not much but would add more viewer interest to the composition.
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 03/07/2007 12:45:06 AM
I remember your post in the forum saying you thought your photo was low key & some voters already gave you comments stating it wasn't.. It just so happened, I had just posted a few comments like that to only 2 people and was waiting for this to end to see if I was one of them..LOL.. Happy to say, I was one of them.. One of your 10's.. lol.. I loved this shot, it is low key and it was very creative.. Great use of thinking outside the box and I wish I could be more creative too.. Loved it !!!
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
03/05/2007 11:52:34 PM
very interesting shot...the water is a nice touch
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 03/04/2007 07:37:28 AM
a really interesting image
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 03/03/2007 12:59:14 PM
funky! i like. 8
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 03/02/2007 08:27:03 PM
Interesting.
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 03/02/2007 07:32:46 PM
Clever, I will think on how this is done - but the effect is nice art. 8.
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 03/02/2007 05:49:54 PM
awesome photo!! One of my favorites!!
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 03/02/2007 02:58:38 PM
A masterful execution. Everything is so clear and sharp, well done.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/28/2007 09:41:15 PM
very nice
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 02/28/2007 07:39:14 PM
not low key photo
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 02/28/2007 05:40:19 PM
This one caught my eye. Very interesting. -9
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 02/28/2007 01:35:38 AM
Nice shot. I dont think Its Low Key thou. Needs Blacks with a Few Highlights.
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