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Autumn Leaves
Posted:
Mon May 23, 2005 9:01 pmby tsanglabs
Tested out my 50mm 1.8 at the Melbourne Botanical Gardens on Sunday. Here is one of the results.
Update: Here is another version of the image
Personally I quite like the original version
Posted:
Mon May 23, 2005 10:33 pmby mic
Great colour & Out Of Focus background there David, great time of the year.
Good little performer the mighty little 50mm Stubbie.
Mic.
Posted:
Mon May 23, 2005 10:47 pmby SoCal Steve
I think I understand why Boke means mess in Japanese. Gotta crop some of that top off. Then you've got a real nice image there.
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Mon May 23, 2005 11:14 pmby christiand
NICE photo,
I agree with SoCalSteve.
Perhaps cut in half and show the bottom half only.
Cheers
CD
Posted:
Tue May 24, 2005 9:32 amby big pix
OR you could add a GAUSSIAN BLUR to the background to make the area in focus stand out more........
cheers
bp
EDIT: you could also lighten or darken the background at this stage......
Posted:
Tue May 24, 2005 9:40 amby darb
hmmm autumn ... great colour capture. The composition bugs me a smidge with the top 2/3rd of the image ... maybe a slight crop might bring it back ... but horses for courses.
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Tue May 24, 2005 1:21 pmby stubbsy
David
I, too, find the large amount of quite harsh boke at the top distracts greatly from what is otherwise a wonderful shot. I think the rich autumn hues you've captured would work much better with some judicious cropping of the top and/or a gaussian blur on the background as has already been suggested.
Posted:
Tue May 24, 2005 1:31 pmby tsanglabs
I will try out your suggestions tonight to see what I come out with.
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Tue May 24, 2005 4:15 pmby flipfrog
tsanglabs:
great image, love the dof, and i like your avatar too!!
Posted:
Tue May 24, 2005 4:23 pmby PiroStitch
The DOF is good but I think because it's not a smooth pattern, it's a bit distracting from the autum leaves itself
Hope that made sense.
Posted:
Tue May 24, 2005 9:57 pmby tsanglabs
OK posted a different version
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Tue May 24, 2005 10:00 pmby mic
Thats better
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Tue May 24, 2005 11:07 pmby jethro
grab the top half its peacefull and mysterious
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Wed May 25, 2005 12:09 amby PiroStitch
Prefer the second one