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Gabriella Carta
{K:22879} 9/30/2003
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fantastic! wonderful flower!!
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Kim Culbert
{K:37013} 10/1/2003
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I know that you remove the natural background because it was too busy, but the black here seems too harsh for such a delicate flower. Sometimes you need to have the softer greens in there to make it have emotion.
I think the square format works here although I still would have like there to be some breathing room on the left side... that one petal is cut off. Was that side cropped at all?
I'm sure that this is an improvement over the original, as you have the PS skills to make magic but sometimes it's nice to see some bg colour.
Excellent sharpness in the foreground flower! Love that detail!
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Debra Griffin-Ibrahim
{K:7119} 10/2/2003
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Lovely Macro!!!
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Becky V
{K:9699} 10/2/2003
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Thank you, as always, for your thoughtful and honest comments, Kim.
I'm attaching the original: as you can see, the cropping was done only at the top and bottom. I wanted to include the entire flower, but this was as much as my macro could handle (going without it wouldn't have had the same impact or detail, I think).
Unfortunately, this orchid was hiding in a greenhouse, rather than displayed in a garden. The setting wasn't all that spectacular, but maybe there was a better way to manipulate the bg rather than eliminate it.
If anyone else has suggestions on how to alter the original for maximum effect, I'd love to hear them. Or perhaps the original shouldn't have been altered at all? . . .
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Dirck DuFlon
{K:35779} 10/2/2003
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Hi Becky, I'm not sure what I could add to what Kim already said but, having the benefit of seeing the original, I can say that I really don't find most of the background distracting at all since it is nicely blurred! The part of the BG that *is* distracting is at the bottom, where you cropped the image (red terra-cotta and bright yellow spot.)
Maybe you could clone out just those elements, leaving the background on the upper part as is? I think it adds depth to the image and, as Kim said, wouldn't look so harsh with the soft coloring of the orchid. I like your composition here, with the flower in the back mirroring the foreground one!
P.S. Thanks so much for your comment, and for picking my lonely 'flight' abstract!
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Jose Ignacio (Nacho) Garcia Barcia
{K:94480} 10/5/2003
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fantastic.marvelous composition.
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Chris Lauritzen
{K:15387} 10/8/2003
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Becky,
It almost works; the lighting is totally flat and needs to be punched up. I do thing the blurred leaf in the foreground is distracting but not as much as the lighting.
I have punched up the color here... I think it works better.
BTW this image would work good in B&W
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Becky V
{K:9699} 10/10/2003
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Thank you Dirck and Chris for your critiques.
Chris: thank you for drawing my attention to the "flat" lighting. I never really noticed it, but you're right. This photo was taken in natural light in a dark room. I like how you've increased the colour and contrast and really made those whites white. :)
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Debra Griffin-Ibrahim
{K:7119} 10/12/2003
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Lovely Image!!
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Bruce W. Clark
{K:1100} 11/9/2003
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Great orchid shot. I think the black back ground really brings it out.
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