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Challenge: Purple III (Basic Editing)
Camera: Nikon D50
Lens: Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR II
Location: My living room
Date: Aug 15, 2008
Aperture: f/2.8
ISO: 100
Shutter: 0.125
Date Uploaded: Aug 15, 2008

shot RAW, tweaked in Lightroom, adjusted contrast/brightness and color saturation.

Statistics
Place: 78 out of 227
Avg (all users): 5.5625
Avg (commenters): 7.7143
Avg (participants): 5.3038
Avg (non-participants): 5.7209
Views since voting: 3649
Views during voting: 310
Votes: 208
Comments: 9
Favorites: 0


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09/01/2008 08:22:59 PM
Critique Club Review:

Color Saturation and Hue: Colors are pleasing, and nicely saturated. Best of all, not over done, as is all too often the case with bright flower pictures. Hues are nice and natural.

Brightness and contrast: Image is bright enough, contrast could be a little higher.

Focus and depth of field: Focus appears a little soft. There does not seem to be a real point of sharp focus. Depth of field may be a bith shallow at this f-stop and a contributor to the effect.

As already noted by others, the small file size has hurt you. Jpeg is a "lossy" compression algorythm, meaning that the more you compress, the more you lose in detail, and artifacts of compression creep in. Check your settings when you save. (I don't have Lightroom) but there should be an option to control file size and quality. You want it as close to 150 K in the open challenges as you can get, to preserve all the detail.

The yellow flower does compete for attention as the subject of the image, so some of the purists may have voted you a bit lower if they felt the flower was the subject rather than the vase.

All in all, a well balanced, peaceful image. I could see it in an office or a magazine. It would also make a nice entry for the current catalog challenge as a picture for a vase on sale.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
08/26/2008 10:13:27 PM
The colours are very complimentary, the vase is groovy.
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08/25/2008 06:56:45 PM
Very, very nice!
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08/24/2008 04:40:28 PM
This could have, should have been much larger file size, and image quality, then sharpened for crisp focus on the subject. Composition, lighting and colors are very nice.
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08/23/2008 11:26:06 PM
simple yet elegant. beautiful photo.
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08/23/2008 03:53:18 AM
Simple elegance. Great shot.
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08/22/2008 03:33:57 PM
I LIKE this one! This would make a very nice print -- great big -- in a very modern setting.
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08/21/2008 10:16:27 PM
Good composition but not the cleanest of images.
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08/20/2008 01:50:19 AM
Wonderful shot!! 10
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