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Autumn Leaves

Postby tsanglabs on Mon May 23, 2005 9:01 pm

Tested out my 50mm 1.8 at the Melbourne Botanical Gardens on Sunday. Here is one of the results.

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Update: Here is another version of the image

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Personally I quite like the original version
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Postby mic on Mon May 23, 2005 10:33 pm

Great colour & Out Of Focus background there David, great time of the year.

Good little performer the mighty little 50mm Stubbie.

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Postby SoCal Steve on Mon May 23, 2005 10:47 pm

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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Postby christiand on Mon May 23, 2005 11:14 pm

NICE photo,

I agree with SoCalSteve.
Perhaps cut in half and show the bottom half only.

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Postby big pix on Tue May 24, 2005 9:32 am

OR you could add a GAUSSIAN BLUR to the background to make the area in focus stand out more........

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EDIT: you could also lighten or darken the background at this stage......
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Postby darb on Tue May 24, 2005 9:40 am

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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Postby stubbsy on Tue May 24, 2005 1:21 pm

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.
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Postby tsanglabs on Tue May 24, 2005 1:31 pm

I will try out your suggestions tonight to see what I come out with.
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Postby flipfrog on Tue May 24, 2005 4:15 pm

tsanglabs:
great image, love the dof, and i like your avatar too!!
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Postby PiroStitch on Tue May 24, 2005 4:23 pm

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.
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Postby tsanglabs on Tue May 24, 2005 9:57 pm

OK posted a different version
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Postby mic on Tue May 24, 2005 10:00 pm

Thats better :D
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Postby jethro on Tue May 24, 2005 11:07 pm

grab the top half its peacefull and mysterious
shoot it real.

look! and see. Shoot and feel
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Postby PiroStitch on Wed May 25, 2005 12:09 am

Prefer the second one :D
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