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It's Over
It's Over
hellfish1066


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Sunset or Sunrise (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Canon EOS-450D Rebel XSi
Lens: Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS
Location: Guilford Ct
Date: Dec 1, 2008
Aperture: f/3.5
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/250
Galleries: Nature, Floral
Date Uploaded: Dec 7, 2008

 This was taken the first day of this competition and was actually one of the last shots i took before heading home. I never actually intended to use this one just kinda snapped it. Once on the computer i liked it much more than everything else i had taken. I slightly cropped it, used curves, and boosted the saturation.

I figured the sun setting and flowers dying both just said "It's Over" .

Statistics
Place: 131 out of 167
Avg (all users): 5.1104
Avg (commenters): 4.7500
Avg (participants): 4.9254
Avg (non-participants): 5.2529
Views since voting: 796
Views during voting: 298
Votes: 154
Comments: 5
Favorites: 0

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 12/17/2008 02:01:08 PM
Greetings from the Critique Club

First of all, let me say, I did like your title. I thought it was quite fitting for this challenge.

The concept is very nice, the dying flowers silhouetted against the sky. However, there are a few things that may have contributed to you lowish score. Hopefully, my comments will help you.

It looks very much like the horizon is actually a few degrees away from being level. You can see this if you look at the water, it has an appearance of tilting to the left. A quick rotation adjustment in Photoshop would have helped this. The fence posts in the foreground of the picture do not really add anything to the composition and make it feel quite cluttered. Another potential reason for the score is that voters possibly felt it didn't really portray a sunset (some people literally want to see the sun!).

Overall a good image that probably could have been improved a bit with a little bit of editing.

Sarah
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
12/13/2008 04:25:30 PM
were is the sun? but all twogether nice shot
 12/10/2008 02:54:21 PM
I would have liked this better with the flowers, I would rather focus on the sky with a little fence...
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/09/2008 03:49:27 PM
Nice silhouettes, I'd like to see a version without the fence in at the bottom so the flowers look like they're really growing into the sky.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/08/2008 07:08:27 AM
Composition is well thought out. nice sky
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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