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beautiful Australian native

Postby christiand on Sun Jul 31, 2005 7:48 pm

I went to the Botannical Garden in Canberra today
and amongst other plants was this beautiful flower.
I forgot to record the name of the plant. :oops:
Here it is:
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This is geometry and maths alive ...

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Postby Hlop on Sun Jul 31, 2005 8:08 pm

Hi Christian,

Nice shot, I love colors and form. Maybe bit too centrall ...

How big is the flower? Is it macro shot?
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Postby Atorie on Sun Jul 31, 2005 8:12 pm

Good work CD, I love the DOF and the composition. Keeping the flowerhead central with the three leaves making a triangle keeps the photo evenly weighted but not symmetrical.
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Postby christiand on Sun Jul 31, 2005 8:18 pm

Hi Atorie,

thanks for your feed back, that was exactly my intention.

This is the original BTW:

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Also thanks Mikhail.

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kit lens

Postby christiand on Sun Jul 31, 2005 8:20 pm

sorry,

forgot to mention that this photo was taken with the kit lens ...
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Postby nito on Sun Jul 31, 2005 8:24 pm

Did you PS the colours and adjust the shadows because it looks great when compared to the original. Nice
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Postby christiand on Sun Jul 31, 2005 9:13 pm

Hi NITO,

I did a smart sharpen in Photoshop CS2,
then I did a image, adjust, levels and pulled the black a litle bit to the right and also pulled the white a ltlle bit to the left.

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Postby Slider on Sun Jul 31, 2005 9:32 pm

Great shot Christiand. That is one amazing flower.
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Postby rjlhughes on Sun Jul 31, 2005 11:44 pm

I love that line about maths and geometry alive.

and then the flower dies, becomes compost, nutrient, and then another flower perhaps, or grass for a cow, and then it may even become you, or me.
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Postby sirhc55 on Mon Aug 01, 2005 12:46 am

As a flower lover with the memory of a pencil, I love this pic with no name :)
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Postby ozimax on Mon Aug 01, 2005 2:46 pm

Really like the original, the colour is amazing, I'm trying to photograph my Father in law's award winning orchids, they are hard to get focussed correctly but the colours again are superb, Max
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