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Dave Stacey
{K:123016} 7/9/2007
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I like the way you've captured the dandelion, Nick! The soft focus on the outer edges really emphasizes the sharp image of the seeds in the center.
Dave.
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Andre Denis
{K:56538} 7/10/2007
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Hi Nick,
That halo glow around the edges is very attractive on this image. I like the shot, but I'd like to make a suggestion for a different composition. Not necessarily better just different. Someone suggested the same crop to me once on a round flower. I tried it and found a pleasent improvement on my image. I'll try it now and you can see what you think.
I know this might seem to defeat the purpose of the actual halo as prime subject. But it seems to work too somehow.
Andre
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mahassa bahri
{K:10958} 7/10/2007
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mmm,I must say that you have created a very nice soft dandelion, though I prefer Andre's crop, I have to admit that before seeing his attachment I was going to suggest a tighter square crop but this is much more effective I think..
best to you Nick, mahassa
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:104385} 7/10/2007
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Thank you very much, Dave! I am glad that you like the minimal DoF, since it has been my own intention to enhance only a small part of it and let the rest be simply fuzzy.
Best wishes,
Nick
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:104385} 7/10/2007
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Thanky ou so much for the nice comment and the suggestion for the crop, Andre! It gets stronger your way, though the "halo" occupies less of the image. It wins in terms of definition, I think.
About the halo itself, well, what could tha be? I mean the darker ring around the dandelion. It can't be a shadow but I can't imagine what the reson for this appearance might have been.
Thanks again and best wishes,
Nick
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:104385} 7/10/2007
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Thanks a lot for the nice comment and for the ideas about the crop, Mahassa! I do like Andre's crop too for its much stronger definition of the light, but nonetheless I also try your idea. Your crop seems to keep more attention on the whole of the geometric relations.
Interesting how many different aspects can be enhanced by simply sropping.
Thanks agaon and best wishes,
Nick
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mahassa bahri
{K:10958} 7/11/2007
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mmm, I like this one too,
mahassa
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:104385} 7/13/2007
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So, for the time being we have three crops that do it their own way. Let's see if somebody will come up with yet another idea!
Nick
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Aniko Heart
{K:25957} 7/14/2007
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The name of this seed head is "dandelion" Nick. (In fact the pant is called dandelion, and this is its seed head.)
Certainly not an original shot, as I am sure many many people have been captivated by the interest and detail in the dandelion seed head! :) I know I have many similar images. :)
Even though it is not an orginal type of shot, it is pleasing to the eye and I feel you captured it well. I also like your chosen DOF...
Best Regards,
Aniko :)
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painsama
{K:4740} 7/16/2007
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I should buy a macro lens too... :)
A very nice picture for minimal DoF. I like it very much. But this flurry ball thing is probably one of the most commonly photographed flower for shallow DoF. I've seen many examples for the same subject though. But I never get bored of it though.
Best regard Nick.
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:104385} 7/16/2007
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Thanks a lot for the info on the name, Aniko, which also many people gave me in their comments some days ago, and which I already successfully added to my notices about plants.
Indeed not original at all. It rather represents my naive phace on photography - a stage that many people keep permanently active by searching for symbolisms, beauty and other "eternal truths" that are none. Same goes for my many similar images of mine. I would rather expect some kind of of non-interpretatory comment, though, provided anybody around cares about such realistic concepts like apertures, shutter speeds and the like. ;-)
The fact that it is pleasing to the eye... to the eye of whom? Yours? Mine? Or somebody else's? I can't do anything else than accepting that pleasure and that's all. But I need more! "Pleasant for they eye".. isn' that an excuse when we don't really have much more to say? Same goes for "I like the DoF", "I feel you captured it well" and the like.
Don't "feel" it! See it! So, let's save bandwidth: It is not very original but has some advantages in its narrow DoF. That's about liking and feeling. What about a comment now?
Best wishes,
Nick
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:104385} 7/17/2007
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Thanks a lot Painsama. I had once that 100mm Canon FD macro lens, but it was stolen - sigh! But it also had its benefits since I was making too many like this one, that are perhaps nice to see but not very original, really. You know, flower here, flower there ;-)
Anyway, thanks a lot again and best wishes,
Nick
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Marina La Scala
{K:1545} 7/17/2007
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molto bella!!!
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:104385} 7/17/2007
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Thanks a lot, Marina!
Cheers,
Nick
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Aniko Heart
{K:25957} 7/18/2007
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I did not read through all of the comments other people gave, Nick.
I told you the name of the plant without having read the comments by others.
If I say it is pleasing to the eye, yes, I do mean my eye. As for DOF, well, the comment I made was that I liked your chosen DOF! Nothing more or less was meant by this.
Obvious if I said it is pleasing to the eye or similar, I am SEEING it, Nick!
I very much doubt that any comment I give you will satisfy you. It seems rather obvious to me that you enjoy an argument with me most of the time!
Write your own comments if you want your own opinions.
Best Wishes!
Aniko :)
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:104385} 7/18/2007
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but you should read, Aniko! It belongs to the necessary things that anybody should do, when applying the own critiques, since the history of comments is immediately connected to the image (or anything else under critiques) and to the echo that it causes.
To say that something pleases your eye is *completely" different than to say that it pleases *your* eye. In addition, this needs only 4 words to be written. So, if you don't have anything else to say, why not keeping it as short in written lentgh, as it is in meaning?
Critiques is much more than such flat expressions of the own gusto. Thanks heavens there are still people out there that write meaningful comments, and also suggest other techniques and improvements using much more knowledge and experience than such slogans based solely on the amusement of their eyes. Such comments are an enrichment, not the "pleasing of eyes"!!
Which of course eliminates also any need to write my own comments about my own images.
Anything goes! Except selfdeclared artists!
Nick
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