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*** Mini Challenge 247: Follow the rules! ***

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Be very careful where you plant your flowers! ;-)



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Busch

Take the scenic route! Life is too short to do otherwise.

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Hi, Colleen! Thanks for playing!

Your first image is adorable! Her parents must love this shot! The shallow depth of field really focuses your attention on the girl's face, and her eyes, the most important part of a portrait are well focused. The hat does a nice job of framing her face, too. The bright oranges are well placed and do not distract from the girl's face. This one is my fav!

The 2nd shot is very compelling. I want to rub some lotion on him, poor little dry legs. Black and white is a good choice for this shot. The rule you site is balance, for the 2 legs. I hope you don't mind, I'm going to raise a point to educate, but not take away from this image. When you have 2 items in a photo, you run the risk of a split interest - this image has some of this. My eyes go back and forth between the two and have trouble making one image out of it, I continue to focus on 2. Imagine the feet closer together or the image zoomed out/less cropped. While normally excess space is not desirable, if there was more space around the feet, they would seem closer together and your eye would not go from one side to the other.

In the 3rd shot, having 2 cows does not seem to split the image, maybe because they form somewhat of a triangle or because their heads are close together. I like the look on the cow that's laying down, she's saying "who you looking at?".
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Karen
 
I agree, Marti! The lighting on these mushies really makes them pop, and you chose an attractive angle to shot them at. Well done!
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Karen
 
Well seen, Busch! Now that's a grand toupee! Now you must confess, did you shot it this way on purpose or did you only see it once you got it on the computer?
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Karen
 
It was an event and I could not ask the subjects to move and neither could I. I noticed how funny it was when I looked a little later. It did clean up okay in PP.



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Busch

Take the scenic route! Life is too short to do otherwise.

http://www.pbase.com/busch
 
thirds rule
make animal eyes the focus
blurred background



Dave

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fizzix is fun!
fotons are fantastic!!
fotoH5images are flamin'amazin'!!!

DDTuk

 
focus on the animals eye :)
wait till the subject smiles :) :)
bad hair days add....... charisma?? :) :) :)



Dave

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fizzix is fun!
fotons are fantastic!!
fotoH5images are flamin'amazin'!!!

DDTuk

 
ParietalPenguin said:
I like your rule for flowers! Shot this way, with the flower mainly in the same plane, you have most of it in focus, rather than shooting down into it, where depth of field would leave some of it out of focus. Beautiful colors on this flower, too!
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Hi Karen. I think using a camera of the quality of Marti's he would have no trouble with depth of field from above! Although this is an interesting view, all it does for me is make me yearn for 'The Full Monty' :)

Dave

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fizzix is fun!
fotons are fantastic!!
fotoH5images are flamin'amazin'!!!

DDTuk

 
the classiest photo so far IMHO :)

Dave

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fizzix is fun!
fotons are fantastic!!
fotoH5images are flamin'amazin'!!!

DDTuk

 
Nearly stunning - a bit of a lean to the right and the cross on top not quite clear of the foliage. BUT IMHO fabulous colours, contrasting shadows and proportions!

Dave

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fizzix is fun!
fotons are fantastic!!
fotoH5images are flamin'amazin'!!!

DDTuk

 
Good job with the rules!

The bee is in a strong crash point and is very sharp. You did great with that, I have a hard time getting my focus sharp on enough of the insect. You also chose a good aperture to blur the background, to make a nice backdrop for your bee. Well done!
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Karen
 
Ha, ha! I might go for rule of thirds here, too, but I'm having a hard time finding the eye, not sure if it sharp enough, there's too much bad hair in the way! ;)
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Karen
 
Taken with compact camera and cropped to cram all the action into the top left hand corner. [rule of thirds, or should it be ninth].

Background rendered BW as the lady next to the walking bass was wearing bright purple trousers [rule: don't make viewers feel nauseous]. Nigel



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I like your choice of selective color, esp important for this photo, in order to not encourage owners of purple pants! Good cropping to set the focal point in one of the crash points. Nicely done!
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Karen
 
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