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Exhaustion

Postby sirhc55 on Wed Jan 07, 2009 11:54 pm

After 11,000 posts I thought maybe I should post a pic as I have been very lax of late.

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Re: Exhaustion

Postby gstark on Thu Jan 08, 2009 7:21 am

Chris,

What a lovely image.

The colours in this are just beautiful, as is your use of the light. Brightness and contrast, sharp where it should be, soft where it should be, and the sense of decay within the beauty ....
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Re: Exhaustion

Postby ATJ on Thu Jan 08, 2009 7:28 am

Oh... Chris takes photographs. :P

Exhaustion describes the image very well. As Gary says, brightness, contrast and sharpness are great. At first I didn't like the leaf (or whatever it is) growing up through the flower but the more I look the more appropriate I think it is with the theme - life goes on.
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Re: Exhaustion

Postby biggerry on Thu Jan 08, 2009 11:14 am

I actually find interesting contrasts in this picture (in a good way). Titled 'exhaustion', but the 'cool' feel to the the picture in both the white balance and the physical water droplets indicates refreshment and new plant 'crispness' (great technical terms as usual 8) ).
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Re: Exhaustion

Postby sirhc55 on Thu Jan 08, 2009 7:43 pm

Thanks guys. The exhaustion applied to me but now I look at the pic I could not have chosen a better image :lol:
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Re: Exhaustion

Postby zafra52 on Thu Jan 08, 2009 9:27 pm

Some of the highlights look a bit blown out on my monitor.
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Re: Exhaustion

Postby sirhc55 on Thu Jan 08, 2009 11:49 pm

zafra52 wrote:Some of the highlights look a bit blown out on my monitor.


Indeed they are but I am a great believer in the school of thought that says if a highlight is contained within a field of contrast then they can be acceptable :)
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Re: Exhaustion

Postby gstark on Fri Jan 09, 2009 7:57 am

sirhc55 wrote:
zafra52 wrote:Some of the highlights look a bit blown out on my monitor.


Indeed they are but I am a great believer in the school of thought that says if a highlight is contained within a field of contrast then they can be acceptable :)


The question is really one of "do the blown highlights detract from the image?", and in this case, my answer would be "no".
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