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Hot N Cold
Hot N Cold
garfield


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Challenge: In the Garden II (Basic Editing)
Camera: Canon EOS-30D
Lens: Sigma 70-300mm f/4-5.6 DL Macro Super for Canon
Location: My Back Yard - Midlothian VA
Date: Feb 21, 2010
Aperture: f/25
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/250 sec
Galleries: Nature, Macro
Date Uploaded: Feb 23, 2010

The Chili Peppers I left for the birds last year. just some cropping and some color correction. I have loved this site for years, and have finally decided to start submitting.

Statistics
Place: 107 out of 160
Avg (all users): 4.8852
Avg (commenters): 3.6667
Avg (participants): 4.7581
Avg (non-participants): 4.9388
Views since voting: 561
Views during voting: 303
Votes: 209
Comments: 4
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03/03/2010 01:41:25 PM
Greetings from the Critique Club.

First impressions are "oh, some old chilli peppers".

Technically this is ok. Composition is good with the stalk being a good line to lead our eye along the chillis. The background is not distracting. DOF seems to be used well.

Artistically is where this shot falls down. The snow background is not isolated from the subject much so we find ourselves looking at that a lot. The chillis lack a certain something to make us go "wow, cool" - maybe it's the lack of "pop" in colour as one commenter suggested but maybe it's that they are dead but the overall shot doesn't show us the drama and emotion to go with that. Perhaps if you could have got a different background or some dramatic lighting/processing?

In summary an ok shot that wasn't far off a 5. Some good elements to build on for future entries. BTW, congrats on your first entry - learn and you'll be improving soon!

Feel free to PM me if you have any queries.
Gerry
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
03/02/2010 08:47:37 AM
Nice title but image lacks a little punch.
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03/01/2010 03:32:02 PM
I don't find close up snow that interesting a background.
02/25/2010 08:52:43 PM
Very good subject. The shot is well composed. It does suffer from being somewhat gray. There isn't much luminescense to the shot meaning the red color does not realy pop.
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