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#166 Balance: A Composition Tool
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1st - f_otto: Critical balance
2nd - Anthony Comyn: Leaving Liwa
3rd - leanneqld: Bag Of Apples
4th - QueenEsther: Train your Bridge
5th - Jade O.: Landscape - Boulders Beach Penguin Colony
6th - NEAT: Night time falls over the silky waters
7th - johncomyn:
8th - KJW: Twins
9th - A.N.Other: The dark side of the moon
10th - RobertLavker: Pointing the Way
11th - minzaw: horizontal and vertical
12th - elliott: pay attention to the details
13th - dk: alone
14th - rd52: Wave of the Day
15th - aoc46: Windmill and Water Tower
16th - forkcandles : jumping for joy
16th - SteveBee: Christmas in the City
18th - Elyod:
19th - Peanut : Lighthouse
20th - jomari: Docked
21st - Lo: Creeping Cactus
22nd - ysal: Winding Path
23rd - mbbin2: Ducks
24th - Mepo: Nile Lilly
25th - ladpupmoe: Bella (Triangle)
26th - artsy: elegant
27th - hifi:
28th - Old Finn: Sleigh Ride
29th - babysister: The lake at midday.
30th - Amberbug: Cones
30th - mrsawyer: Muscovy duck (Cairina moschata)
Nile Lilly
©2015 Mepo
Canon EOS REBEL T3i
24th
place,
15
points
1/100s
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f10
,
ISO 100
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770mm
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Aperture Priority
,
Center Weighted Average
,
flash
Post-Processing:
Crop to center flower in frame of green. Adjusted color balance and definition (on the flower). Cloned out some debris on the flower stalk.
Extra Info:
I tried to achieve a color balance between the flower and background. The setting sun let me highlight the contrast between the green background and the purple/blue of the flower. The shot also shows balance between the detail in the flower and the oof background. I did try cropping so that the flower was to one side, balancing with open space, but it did not work. This is one of those flowers that needs to be in the center, spreading it's blooms in both directions.
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Mepo
Dec 22, 2015
Thanks for the comments.
Jade: And I thought I could slip a sunset shot past you :-) Remind me not to bring you a bouquet of flowers when we meet.
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Jade O.
Dec 21, 2015
Technically good but quite common in that this looks like a zillion other very good flower shots. A nice documentary botanical style all the same.
aoc46
Dec 20, 2015
The flower shows a nice radial balance, with one central straight-on bloom and the others extending out from it. Would be better seen against the darker part of the background, as the sunlit area competes too much with the flower - would make for a better color balance, too, IMO.
johncomyn
Dec 19, 2015
Really like the contrasting colours.
Anthony Comyn
Dec 19, 2015
I believe this is a balanced image.
Mepo
Dec 18, 2015
fc: Good spotting! The EXIF on the site got the lens wrong. It was my 28 - 105 zoom and I was using it at the maximum of 105mm. Tripod and cable release of course. At full zoom the dof is very narrow. I filled in the shadows with my on camera flash, but I used a portable diffuser that snaps into the hot shoe - highly recommended. If there is enough interest I will post a link to it in the outtakes. The temperature was below zero, but this was in a hothouse. I figured with a blooming flower at this time of year and by using 'color' I'd remain anonymous :-)
forkcandles
Dec 18, 2015
great result on the oof background with an F10 aperture
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