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Simply Orange II
Image Title:  Simply Orange II
 
 By: Laura E.  Russo  
  Copyright ©2006



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Photographer Laura E.  Russo {K:5517}
Project #31 The Square Image Camera Model Olympus C740UZ
Categories Florals
Macro
Nature
Film Format Digital JPEG
Portfolio Florals
Lens Olympus AF zoom 6.3 - 63 mm 1:2.8 - 3.7
Uploaded 2/28/2006 Film / Memory Type XD card
    ISO / Film Speed
Views 328 Shutter 1/1000
Favorites Aperture f/4.0
Critiques 14 Rating
Pending
/ 2 Ratings
Location City - 
State - 
Country - United States   United States
About This is a resubmission of the first image I uploaded to Usefilm. Per the suggestion of Martin, I have further blurred to the background, and bumped up the "bokeh" in PS.

Let me know what you think. As always comments and critiques are welcome.

Thanks!

Laura
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There are 14 Comments in 1 Pages
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Romy Fabian Garmaz   {K:16997} 2/28/2006
Laura.
Gran simetria, armonia de colores y detalles para un gran trabajo
saludos
Romy


Kambiz K   {K:37420} 2/28/2006
lovely macro shot with good details and colors


Gust@vo Sch3v3rin   {K:121677} 2/28/2006
Muy buenos los detalles y la nitidez.
Felicitaciones!


Alicia Popp   {K:83869} 2/28/2006
Bellísima flor y estupenda foto. Felicitaciones!!!


Robert Kocs   {K:89061} 2/28/2006
Beautiful bold colours and lovely details.
Great macro shot with fine tonality!
Well done dear Laura! :)

Have a nice day!
Robert


Giuseppe Guadagno   {K:33980} 2/28/2006
Ciao Laura. Nice pattern here and good half background enough blurred and with a gree colour that matches with the flower. The second half unfortunatly is spoiled by white spots of highliths that are highly disturbing in a floral picture. It is easy to clone them.
This flower is in my garden too; it's very elegant.
Ciao.

Giuseppe


Laura E.  Russo   {K:5517} 3/2/2006
Hi Giuseppe,

There seems to be a variety of tastes among the members at Usefilm, which is actually a good thing, in my opinion. If you look at the original submission of this photo, you will see that one of the members thought the background would look good with bokeh (the points of light that you prefer not to see). In either case, I think that a black background would be preferable for this photo. I actually did this shortly after submitting the original. Let me know what you think. Thanks!

Ciao,
Laura

Orange Flower with black background


Dave Arnold   {K:55613} 3/8/2006
I'd say you are doing quite well without that new Nikor lens you want! This looks great.

Best,
Dave


Sergio M. Cameno   {K:7682} 3/10/2006
Beautiful shot, perfect details. Orange is my favourite colour.
Thanks for your comment!


Aurelio Angino   {K:167} 4/30/2006
Bella macro buoni i dettagli e i colori complimenti Aurelio


Robert Chin   {K:20943} 5/8/2006
Hi Laura,I see you are willing to accept critiques in order to improve which is good.So here goes,I like this more than the black background version but those white spots which
Giuseppe mentioned is distracting to a otherwise beautiful image.Ilike the exposure and blurred background which makes the flower stand out more.
I know you will improve your work in the future so looking forward to viewing it.
Thanks for your comment,it`s appreciated.
Regards
Robert


Laura E.  Russo   {K:5517} 5/10/2006
Hi Robert,

Thank you so much for your critique, it was very helpful.

I have further sofened the focus on this photo, and removed the harsh highlights. I hope this is better - let me know what you think!

Laura


Laura E.  Russo   {K:5517} 5/10/2006
Here is the updated photo with a softer focus.

Thanks to all for your critiques and suggestions!

Laura

Simply Orange II (soft focus)


Robert Chin   {K:20943} 5/10/2006
Laura: My pkotoshop retouching skills are not the best,I need a lot of work in that regard but
this will give you an idea of what I would do.The second soften looks very detract as though floating on air,the original looks much better.This is how I would fix this,others might have a different opinion.Please let me know what you think.
Regards
Robert



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