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A flower and a leaf

Postby NikonUser on Mon Jun 05, 2006 5:17 pm

Hi there,

I was hoping to go out chasing birds today but woke up with a disgusting cold/flu/whatever. So went out in the backyard after the drugs kicked in. Apparently bugs are scared of people with diseases so thought I'd try something different.

Dandelion
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Backlit leaf
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Postby avkomp on Mon Jun 05, 2006 5:26 pm

good detail in the first shot.

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Postby stubbsy on Mon Jun 05, 2006 5:40 pm

Pauk

Great detail in #1 as steve says - we see all the dandelion nice and sharp and have a lovely bokeh (reminds me of what the 70-200 VR delivers). The leaf is interesting, but the green throws me. It's a bit too intense a blue/green I'd up the red a touch, but your colour blindness probably let's you down a bit with this one. (PS I'm waaaay impressed you can produce the quality shots you do when you have colour perception challenges to deal with that can't be calibrated away with the ease a monitor can be)
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Postby greencardigan on Mon Jun 05, 2006 5:43 pm

Good DOF in the first one. Not sure if I like it being off centre though.

#2 looks a tad over saturated.
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Postby NikonUser on Mon Jun 05, 2006 5:51 pm

DOH...

How's this one?
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Maybe I should write a photoshop action that automatically applies -20 saturation to everything after I've played with it? :)

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Postby Justin on Mon Jun 05, 2006 6:10 pm

Good thing you didn't sneeze taking that shot of the dandelion, what with the flu and all... :(

Also I prefer the first version of the leaf - it does not look oversaturated, this is what good backlighting will do? Is this a crop - can you show the edge of leaf which may help?
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Postby NikonUser on Mon Jun 05, 2006 6:14 pm

Justin wrote:Good thing you didn't sneeze taking that shot of the dandelion, what with the flu and all... :(

Also I prefer the first version of the leaf - it does not look oversaturated, this is what good backlighting will do? Is this a crop - can you show the edge of leaf which may help?


I tried blowing on the dandelion to try and get only one seed left on the middle bit.... didn't work :)... As for sneezing, what do you think the yellow bits on the leaf are? :)

I ALWAYS (read: ALWAYS) seem to oversaturate my images (in others opinons)... maybe you are colourblind too? :) Nope it's not a crop.
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Postby Justin on Mon Jun 05, 2006 6:16 pm

Naw I get the same told to me, I love a bit of saturation, check out the pics in the post here....

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