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An Odd Three
An Odd Three
battymaddie


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Odd II (Basic Editing)
Camera: Canon EOS-400D Rebel XTi
Lens: Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 USM Macro
Location: Outside my apartment
Date: Apr 21, 2008
Aperture: 11
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/500
Galleries: Macro, Water
Date Uploaded: Apr 21, 2008

 I really struggled getting all the water droplets perfect....so I gave up and figured that there can be some "odd" ones. I'm afraid that I will get docked on scoring for all of the negative space.

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 05/05/2008 06:22:44 PM
Greetings from the critique club!

This has been mentioned before but I'll reiterate anyways. I think the only problem with this shot is the lack of separation between the drops forming the three and the background. Perhaps larger drops might have helped. One thing I did pick up on which I appreciate is that you printed the background backwards so that the words would be mirrored in the drops and therefore display correctly. I also agree that a shallower DOF would have helped. (I wonder how it would have turned out at f/2.8?)
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
04/29/2008 09:03:26 PM
fun take on the classic water drop image. Good stuff :-) well done. -9-
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 04/29/2008 10:33:51 AM
Shallower DOF would be nice, blurring the print behind.
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 04/28/2008 01:10:13 PM
I really wish the background was more blurred and the Odd's were a lot larger.
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 04/25/2008 08:21:28 AM
nice use of droplets to create the focus lenses for the shot - the only issue i see is that the 3 itself is not separated enough from the oof background
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 04/24/2008 11:19:10 AM
Cute -- A little contrived, but very powerful. It took me a while to figure out what "PPO" stood for (Doh!). Did you try a lower case "O", then "PPo" may have been more apparent as the inverse "odd"?
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 04/23/2008 12:16:13 AM
trippy
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