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Marcos Duarte
{K:15402} 1/29/2004
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Beautiful.
Marcos
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Cathy Barrows
{K:1897} 1/29/2004
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well if nothing else you have kept your sense of humor with this shot. my only suggestion is for the future and that is...you just can't shoot macro regardless of the time of day without a tripod....as is with this shot it does have a softness, but still very pleasing.
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john amore
{K:14015} 1/29/2004
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looks like a painting good work
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Kim Culbert
{K:37013} 1/29/2004
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Becky, WHY??? WHY WHY WHY? If this was sharp it would have rocked my world... and all because a tripod wasn't used!!!! (okay, I bet you've beat yourself up enough over this!)
The lines are elegant and intriguing and the punch of yellow is beautiful.
Have you tried taking the oringal through the DRY BRUSH filter in PS to give it a more painterly feel instead of trying to blur? Sometimes it helps to add that layer of "paint" to disguise.
mmmm, elderberry tea.
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Stefan Engström
{K:24473} 1/29/2004
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I will confess that I enjoyed your "about" more than the photo, but I do like that too :-) What you need is to change your frame of mind to that of "abstract photography"! That yellow color is pretty special... There is always the re-do.
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Becky V
{K:9699} 1/29/2004
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I feel I must defend one of my five kinds of crazy. I didn't use a tripod because this flower was just a few centimetres from the ground and my tripod isn't schmancy enough to handle that. If I had taken this photo on my stomach instead of employing the "hunching over and balancing on ones toes before one invariably falls over and impales oneself on miscellaneous garden gnomes" method, it probably would have been sharper. But the ground was wet and cold and I'm a colossal wimp who is obviously not willing to suffer for my art.
So there! :-P
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Dirck DuFlon
{K:35779} 1/29/2004
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Look out! She's gone Begonial!! 
You know, I kind of like it as is! Despite the lack of sharpness, you ended up with a quite lovely, soft and romantic image that's pretty darn appealing! Just for kicks, I threw a few things at it and came up with a kind of 'painterly' version by using an edge enhancement tool and emphasizing the grain rather than trying to mask it. What do you think?
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Lex Bronkhorst
{K:14145} 1/29/2004
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You sure got some impressive photo's on this page! Really wonderfull work.
I don't think there is such a need for help to you. It looks fine, great detail. Although it could be a little more ballanced, the yellow from the center of the flower could be, at my meaning, a little bit more to the center of the photo. The center in the center.
Greets, Lex
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Becky V
{K:9699} 2/5/2004
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Dirck: thanks for the reworking. I do like the upped contrast and grain - I think I'll play with that in PS to make it more stylistic (perhaps like a pencil drawing?) so it looks like I meant to do it that way. Because I totally meant to do it that way!
Right. I'm not fooling anyone, right.
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Sam Bennett
{K:30} 3/22/2004
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This Photograph works for me. Some soft focus pics such as fog dawn dusk will-0-wist etc can convey emotion and beauty. On the other hand my mind isn't so sharp as to demand the ultimate sharpness in a thing of beauty anyhow. Very good work for the conditions involved. Sam
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Sam Bennett
{K:30} 3/22/2004
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This Photograph works for me. Some soft focus pics such as fog dawn dusk will-0-wist etc can convey emotion and beauty. On the other hand my mind isn't so sharp as to demand the ultimate sharpness in a thing of beauty anyhow. Very good work for the conditions involved. Sam
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