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11/13/2007 05:59:15 PM |
I haven't seen the version before you adjusted contrast, but it is definitely overdone now :). You have to be very careful with contrast adjustments, I learned the hard way to simply stay away from the contrast slider. Tweaking levels or curves usually (always, if you know how to operate them :) gives much better results. The most serious problem of this shot now is the oversaturated red channel, so the texture of the flower petals is obliterated. Maybe it happened when you boosted the contrast, or maybe it was like this from the start, I don't know. Even if the latter. if the original is in RAW you may try to salvage this by partially desaturating it before conversion to JPEG.
i hope you don't mind my blabbering Courtney, I am just trying to help... and thank you for your comment! :) |
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11/13/2007 02:17:44 PM |
| It's an ok shot, but for me the background is too busy and distracting. I would as make a tighter crop as trevytrev said also. |
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11/13/2007 01:16:01 PM |
| nice shot, I might crop the photo closer to the flower to put more focus on the flower and bee, maybe a square crop. I feel the space on both sides of the flower adds nothing to the composition. I might also boost the contrast just a tad and run it through sharpening, all just a matter of taste though. |
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