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These pretty daisies were enjoying the sun as much as I was over a splendid bbq.
| Title: | Loves me Loves me nots |
| Username: | 
reachakash |
| Uploaded: | 1 May 2010 - 9:51 PM |
| Tags: | Close-up / macro, Close-ups, Flowers, Flowers & plants, General, Macro |
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lovely shot, great DOF. I think it could do with being a bit lighter though.
Oli
Great presentation, love the effect of the shallow DOF. Nice one!
Steve
Welcome to EPZ Akash.
A nice idea, lovely shallow depth of field, but Im afraid it underexposed quite a bit.
Easily rectified, using either curves or levels in Photoshop. in post processing as Ive done in the mod. If using levels, just pull the right triangle in to the left until it touches the graph. Ive also added a little space to the rhs, and cropped on an angle to place the in focus daisy on a third, - then added a simple frame.
Hope this is helpful
Regards
Willie
Hi Akash, welocme to EPZ. it's a great site. you'll learn a lot if you want to and hopefully have fun as well.
This is a nice and interesting first upload. You've ticked the option for constructive critique so Ihope you don't mind if I tell it as I see it.
It's a lovely subject matter and you've obviously suffered for you art and got down and dirty to get this low to the ground, which makes for a powerful composition. I love the way the line of the flowers meanders towards the back of the shot.
Where I'm going to diverge from the others about the shallow depth of field though is that I think it's a bit formulaic and overdone, although technially very well done. I think the main problem is that the flower at the front/bottom is so large in the frame that it hogs the attention, even though it's out of focus and the eye should preferably rest on the one above it in focus. I actually think that a slightly wider aperture and very slightly wider DOF might have made a smoother transition through the frame from flower to flower
Just my thoughts as I see it, hope they're of some use. Either way, love to see some more, stick around and keep them coming 
Stephen
Hello, Akash, and welcome to EPZ. Great title. An attractive image, but my eye is constantly drawn to the large daisy in the front, so I have done a modification where I cropped the bottom and some of the left, so that it is less dominant. I'd like to have seen a less shallow dof, and this is a personal choice, because you have the one daisy centre nicely in focus, but not the petals. I lightened the image and deepened the shadows so that the background became darker. I did a levels adjustment and selectively sharpened just the daisy centre.
Pamela.
I can't really give you much of a crit - it works very well for me and isn't too dark at all on my screen. Very well composed in my opinon. I wouldn't change a thing.
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