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Water Princess
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Challenge: Hidden Gem -- 1,000th Challenge! (Advanced Editing VII*)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Nikon D200
Lens: Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR II
Location: Pasadena, CA --- Huntington Gardens
Date: Nov 24, 2006
Aperture: f/10.0
ISO: 800
Shutter: 1/400
Galleries: Macro, Floral
Date Uploaded: Mar 9, 2009

 Virtually no processing --- sharpened, cropped and brought up shadows slightly.

Statistics
Place: 332 out of 1129
Avg (all users): 5.8868
Avg (commenters): 6.6481
Avg (participants): 5.8544
Avg (non-participants): 6.0676
Views since voting: 1039
Views during voting: 640
Votes: 486
Comments: 58
Favorites: 3 (view)

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
03/17/2009 10:07:56 PM
Wonderful color, focus, composition. Very, very nice.
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 03/17/2009 08:50:24 PM
Beautiful colors and clarity in this floral. 7
 03/17/2009 04:31:04 PM
Nice composition, nice colors, love the pop of yellow.
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 03/17/2009 02:07:27 PM
now this is a wow picture...such beautiful colors...soft, yet bright, excellent focus...will have to add to my favs...
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 03/17/2009 08:43:38 AM
Love the colors and the great details here, very sharp, very well done.
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 03/17/2009 06:32:20 AM
Really beautiful image. Lovely colors and detail.
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 03/17/2009 02:16:55 AM
Beautiful flower... nice colours, and the sharpness is good.
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 03/17/2009 01:13:13 AM
Beautiful shot.
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 03/16/2009 09:05:10 PM
Great composition and details. Very nicely done.
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 03/16/2009 05:36:24 PM
Lovely water lily! A bit of noise... in the leaves... but good detail in the flower (a bitof dust on your sensor middle petal on left)

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 03/16/2009 02:44:51 PM
Nice crop and good color.
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 03/16/2009 01:23:18 PM
Good composition. I love how warm the yellow center is.
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 03/16/2009 12:31:34 PM
noisy and a bit dark ... just four sorry
;D take care

brano
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 03/16/2009 02:17:10 AM
Awesome capture and presentation. Gorgeous.
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 03/15/2009 10:30:06 PM
A beauty!
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 03/15/2009 09:07:01 AM
great macro - a bit grainy though
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 03/15/2009 07:34:49 AM
Beautiful flower with a nice color combination of purple and yellow.
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 03/14/2009 11:20:43 PM
Beautiful detail, and delicate colour in this image. The green background looks a tad noisy. Good composition.
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 03/14/2009 10:55:46 PM
Such a beautiful flower, nice soft colours. Would like to see this a bit brighter.
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 03/14/2009 10:09:58 PM
Beautiful composition
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 03/14/2009 09:30:12 PM
Great capture - nice DOF. Beautiful colors.
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 03/14/2009 06:36:06 PM
the detail is amazing, lovely job
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 03/14/2009 04:20:47 PM
A masterful shot! Top 100 for me. Incredible use of selective lighting and color levels. Great crop. Great detail. Would have cloned out the tine dark specs on the background leaf.... A fave.
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 03/14/2009 12:52:32 PM
A lovely flower shot with very nice colors. Rather self explanatory.
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 03/14/2009 09:04:00 AM
Very good composition. The green areas seem noisy.
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 03/14/2009 08:55:03 AM
Just gorgeous. Love the colors!
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 03/14/2009 03:13:28 AM
Great color
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 03/13/2009 11:27:38 PM
Excellent processing; this looks like a painting.
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 03/13/2009 10:28:39 PM
Excellent color work and the level of detail is superb!
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 03/13/2009 08:23:53 PM
nice crop, the colors work very well here. 7
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 03/13/2009 05:39:59 PM
Beautiful flower image. Fantastic sharpness.
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 03/13/2009 01:52:01 PM
this is a fine image, just wish the background didn't look over sharpened (?)
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 03/13/2009 01:35:49 PM
Excellent composition, detail and color, congratulations!!
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 03/13/2009 10:22:12 AM
Very nice; best detail on a water lily I've seen yet.
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 03/13/2009 10:07:19 AM
fantastic close up, great colours
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 03/13/2009 03:22:40 AM
Very slightly oversharpened for my taste. Especially noticeable in the OOF areas which could easily have been hit with a touch of gaussian blur.

Generally quite appealing though.
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 03/13/2009 02:52:26 AM
beautiful textures and colors, background is unfortunately very noisy
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 03/12/2009 09:42:03 PM
nice flower, I've always liked these
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 03/12/2009 09:32:42 PM
lovely
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 03/12/2009 09:03:41 PM
A little noisy in the green but nice detail on the flower and good composition.
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 03/12/2009 04:52:29 PM
stunning colors
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 03/12/2009 12:28:17 PM
Outstanding floral work 8
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 03/12/2009 10:05:35 AM
beautiful find and framed just perfectly, love the colors
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 03/12/2009 05:49:30 AM
I think just a lil bump on the brightness or saturation might have helped but very nice.
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 03/12/2009 01:23:01 AM
wonderful colors great shot
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 03/12/2009 12:52:39 AM
beautiful colors and contrasts
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 03/12/2009 12:23:27 AM
I'm not a floral person, but this is nicely detailed and colorful.
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 03/11/2009 09:32:50 PM
Very nice macro. Great colors and detail.
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 03/11/2009 08:47:54 PM
Love the sharpness with detail.
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 03/11/2009 06:32:16 PM
Really beautiful floral image. Love the details we see in the inner portion and the texture/veins I see in the radiating petals. Colors are wonderful too...the gold hue is vibrant and a deep rich color. But because it is the soft lavenders on the petals themselves look juuuusssst a *tad* washed out. Tis odd because the purple/lavenders in the center portion of the flower are a lively vibrant color...perhaps tis because they have more pigment. I do wonder if just a slight boost in saturation levels would make it stand out a bit more. Nonetheless a beautiful flower shot.
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 03/11/2009 04:56:08 PM
I enjoyed taking a moment to enjoy this flower, very nicely presented..
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 03/11/2009 01:49:18 PM
background is a bit grainy, thats distracting for me. the angle of the flower is perfect, , detail of the pollen shows up nicely.
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 03/11/2009 10:55:09 AM
Congratulations on being part of this 1000th challenge on DPC. Keep up the good work!!
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 03/11/2009 10:29:45 AM
Nice shot. Love the colors.
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 03/11/2009 07:48:24 AM
Perfect composition and crop, stunning colours too! Best of luck. 8
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 03/11/2009 05:38:39 AM
cool capture
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 03/11/2009 03:12:16 AM
Nice shot. May have reduced noise a little more to create a smoother green background.
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 03/11/2009 01:28:34 AM
good DOF
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