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The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: Harald L on November 25, 2013, 08:11:55 pm
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Shot this awkward tree at the Cape. Tried to convert it into BW but that didn't work. C&C?
Harald
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Two suggestions: clone out that lone dandelion and vignette it a bit more. Otherwise, a decent naturalistic shot.
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Depends on what you're wanting to say. B&W could work.
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That's a good one, Mike!
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Yeah. I like Mike's B&W too. And that's not a dandelion, Slobodan, it's a little daisy.
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Depends on what you're wanting to say. B&W could work.
It works very well, much better than the color version. Good job!
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A dandelon is a daisy.
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Maybe in California, but everywhere else a taraxacum is not an asteraceae.
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....that's not a dandelion, Slobodan, it's a little daisy.
But of course, your D800 can discern the difference, my lowly 60D can not :'(
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Thank you guys for your suggestions. Vignetting and removing the little white flower is a good idea which are applied in the new version (little bit vignetting and radical removing). I have to keep the 3:2 ratio because I need this picture for my calendar-2014 project but I have to admit that 5:7 or 1:1 works as well.
Like the BW-idea and will try it out occasionally.
Harald
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I know I'm a little late but still ...
I felt like inflicting some copyright infringement and bashing the sites TOS relentlessly and whatever.
Here is my suggestion:
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I'd hate to be a tree.
Unfortunately, last-night's gale blew down our only mimosa tree. Sad, because my wife and I were instrumental in its planting many years ago. It served the very useful purpose of screening off another block of apartments across the gardens... oh well, maybe some beautiful people may move in at some stage. But I'd never see them, anyway, as the interesting side of our place faces southwards along the line of the Tramuntana mountains. We used to be able to look at the winter snows on Puig Major, at 1445 metres, the highest peak in Mallorca and, surprisingly, higher, I believe, than anything in the UK. It was all quite romantic, in its way.
Now I see part of the range, but most, including Puig, has been hidden behind a freshly growing pine forest, courtesy the EEC that bribed our local farmer to slaughter all his animals and stop growing cereals. So, gone the animal life, the flowing sea of golden corn and a big Hi! to the green gloom that's overtaken the abadoned, once-productive farm. Mallorca was probably quite self-sufficient in terms of food production at one time.
Did I ever mention my theory about a lost Golden Age? Probably not.
Rob C
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I know I'm a little late but still ...
I felt like inflicting some copyright infringement and bashing the sites TOS relentlessly and whatever.
Here is my suggestion:
Brillant idea. I've dared to improve a little bit;-)
Harald
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Maybe in California, but everywhere else a taraxacum is not an asteraceae.
Dandelion
Plant
Taraxacum is a large genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. They are native to Eurasia and North and South America, and two species, T. officinale and T. erythrospermum, are found as weeds worldwide. Wikipedia
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Brillant idea. I've dared to improve a little bit;-)
Harald
ROFL. You made my day for today ... :D