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Camera: Nikon D60
Lens: Nikon AF-S Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G DX VR
Location: Newark, DE
Date: Jun 8, 2009
Aperture: f6.3
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/20
Date Uploaded: Jun 8, 2009

Viewed: 182
Comments: 9
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Critiques/suggestions are welcome!!!

One of the things I love about strawberries is that you can have flowers, developing fruit, and ripe fruit on the same plant at the same time.

I had a hard time with the crop & saturation. I kind of like how it turned out, but I'd like to see what you all think.

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06/10/2009 11:33:31 PM
Lovely rich colors in this.
06/09/2009 06:23:21 PM
love the ripeness of it and the moisture .. i didnt know about the strawberries having all that going on at the same time ... looking at this photograph i can see it happening .. for some reason i love that little white flower poking out from the growth around it .. great shot .. :)
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06/09/2009 09:55:47 AM
I really like this shot -- it has a nice diagonal flow from upper right to lover left. IMNSHO, you might crop a little off of the right side to accentuate that. Also, maybe a little dodging at the lower right to give us a tiny bit more detail in the pot. It may be my monitor, but that is sort of a large black space when I view it. I really, really like the bright red strawberries. Normally I don't care for water drops, but here they really add to the shot.
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06/09/2009 03:30:48 AM
Looking at your settings I'm guessing that it was quite dark.
F6.3 accounts for your very shallow depth of field leading to the lack of background focus, whilst the slow shutter speed 1/20s is going to make hand holding quite a challenge, well for me anyway lol.
If you did need to shoot at these settings due to light etc I would be tempted to move further away from the subject and then crop tigher on the image in this way getting a bigger depth of field. (The closer you are to the subject for a given F nos the shallower the depth of field)

I'm going to make a guess now that based on the settings and the shot I reckon you were at full zoom and about 1m away from the subject. This would give you approx 8cm of depth of field.

Message edited by author 2009-06-09 03:34:48.
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06/09/2009 02:21:56 AM
Very nice, i love strawberrys lol

Message edited by author 2009-06-09 03:26:35.
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06/08/2009 11:31:27 PM
For the crop, you have a nice balance with the tender shoots out away from the main part of the plant. This captures the curve of the lower curb, but with the disadvantage of a rather dull left upper corner. During shooting, moving a bit to the left might have been something to try. As it is, making a crop right where that chopped off stem ends could produce a nearly square image that takes better advantage of the upper curve behind the plant. Different, but not absolutely better.

I notice that you only registered this January, making you somewhat new. Navigating through your profile, I see a lot of pretty good comments not yet marked as helpful. People do notice that. Especially when you ask for help, you might consider clicking the "helpful" box under the comment as positive feedback to encourage the commenters, even if it is mostly just to acknowledge their effort (unless, of course, what you receive is really obnoxious or particularly unhelpful).
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06/08/2009 11:06:48 PM
I can see that this was probably difficult to adjust contrast and saturation to suit all components. I think that you've done a great job of it. I like the image, and I think strawberries are great value for the way they fruit and flower. It is so pretty to have that progression.
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06/08/2009 11:04:17 PM
What I find most interesting about this is that the plant is in a POT! I've never seen a strawberry plant not in the ground.
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06/08/2009 10:53:28 PM
I think it's fascinating too...love the water; it adds a succulent texture to the image. I can see this as a kitchen print or something.
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