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Darren Arena
{K:2999} 10/26/2004
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Kim, your photography is astounding! I love sunflowers to begin with, but this perspective is awesome. I love the backilt petals and the composition! I am adding you to my friends list to see what fabulous photos will be posted next!
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Becky V
{K:9699} 10/10/2004
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I like how your composition really anthropomorphizes (I can spell it, I just can't say it!) your subjects and lends a feeling of drama to the photo. The foreground lighting is excellent and really makes that sunflower pulsate with colour and light!
When it comes to isolating certain parts of a photo for manipulation, that just comes with practice. The first thing you'll learn is that there are a million (well, maybe a hundred) ways of doing it. And I never seem to do it the same way twice!
This is what I did with your photo:
- Ctrl + Alt + Shift + ~ to select the highlights of the photo
- deselected the highlights on the foreground flower by using Alt + Lasso tool
- feathered selection 5 pixels
- Ctrl + J to cut selection on to a new layer
- used curves to darken the highlights
- colour balance to return colour to the blackened highlights
Personally, I feel it looks a bit unnatural. I'm still working on how to make manipulated elements look non-manipulated. When I figure it out, you'll be the first to know! :)
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Jorg Reif
{K:16020} 9/30/2004
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The front flower is just georgeous, very artful appearance. Especially those wonderful golden stars in the brown basket and the light shining through the petals as contrasted with the brown. I am not so sure about the background, the slightly blurred overexposed second flower doesn't add too much to the picture in my opinion. I guess I would prefer the pic without it or with it but less obvious, more subdued. But nice shot nevertheless. Regards Jorg
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Stefan Engström
{K:24473} 9/28/2004
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Great backlight and a little bit unusual composition is good here. I like the reflected light on the flower better in the other version, but it seems it would be a difficult compromise between showing the contrast to the petals and retaining detail in the center.
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Carolyn Wiesbrock
{K:14051} 9/28/2004
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Beautiful and the lighting is perfect!
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Jani Salvataggio
{K:27283} 9/28/2004
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Excellent macro, fantastic colours!!!!!!!!!!!!
regards
Jani
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