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Aug 08, 2008 18:05 |  #1

Is it too busy, need cropped or ?

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Aug 08, 2008 18:48 |  #2

Not too busy to me! Lovely composition.what would think about a tad more light? Even without, its a framer.


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Aug 08, 2008 19:13 |  #3

Thanks for the advice Flo. I lightened it up a bit. I was afraid of blowing out the colr on the flower petals. Any better?




  
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Aug 08, 2008 20:41 |  #4

That's a much better composition and being brighter helps, as well.


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Aug 08, 2008 20:44 |  #5

The second one is a little washed out to me... I like the first more. Maybe something in between.


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Aug 09, 2008 00:47 |  #6

DEfinitivecars wrote in post #6073601 (external link)
The second one is a little washed out to me... I like the first more. Maybe something in between.

I was thinking on the first photo;)


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Aug 09, 2008 01:54 |  #7

Is that the original pic? I feel as if there should be a bit more to the right, or some of the bottom cropped off to make a more 3:2 ratio.


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Aug 09, 2008 06:21 |  #8

Cloned another flower in bottom right
Used a little HDR ReDynaMix to clarify and add depth\color.

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It's really just a little washed out looking, an easy fix in post.
You can play w\different crops, as soldXsnake mentioned, or clone, I just, as you can tell, grabbed the flower next to it, nothing fancy.

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Aug 10, 2008 12:59 |  #9

I like what you have done Frenchfx. I'll have to check into these programs.

Here is the whole picture before I cropped out the weed blur in the foreground. I was actually using my 400mm on this one.




  
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