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Doug Smith

Cactus
by Doug Smith

Sharp enough?
Natural window light with foil reflector fill

My daughter teaches kindergarten. This was an end of year teacher gift. My wife took it from her because that child has such a touch with plants that dandelions die in her yard without weedkiller. I thought it was pretty so took the image and made it my POTW for Digital-Rebels group. When our daughter saw it she asked if I realized the flower was glued on and made of paper. As a matter of fact I had seen something that looked like hot melt glue but thought it was some natural structure. It is quite clear in the photo that the 'flower' is glued on. Embarassed here.

Canon EOS 30D ,Canon EF 70-200mm f/4L USM
1/15 f/9 ISO400 CombineZ5 frome 5 originals
12mm Kenko Extension tube full exif

other sizes: small medium original auto
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Janet Forjan-Freedman17-Jun-2006 23:22
Incredible clarity and sharpness! Janet
Sonny14-Jun-2006 18:38
Glue? What glue? That's just cactus juice. I don't think anyone would've noticed had you not said anything. (Remember, even the greats of photography used to move things around to create more of a "scene" in their stills.) Nice sharp image & great subject.
CJ Morgan14-Jun-2006 06:50
Doug, you blew it... if you hadn't of mentioned the glue,
I won't have noticed it as such. Still, it's a sharp shot.
Rick14-Jun-2006 05:33
Very nice shot, great color and DOF
Guest 14-Jun-2006 05:31
Really cute....can't stop laughing
Rod Rees 13-Jun-2006 20:25
Beautiful lighting. Appears a tiny tad oversharpened on my LCD.
Guest 13-Jun-2006 15:25
Really well taken..
Doug Smith13-Jun-2006 13:49
For Jim: I replaced it with one at 133K which wrecks the background smoothness by adding JPG noise. This has one 12mm Kenko tube.

For Dawn: I could not figure out how to crop this or the longer version I shot other than bulls eye style. I suppose I could do an offset version with a lot more background but then the picture would be the bokeh rather than the flower. In smaller versions, I lose the flower texture.
Guest 13-Jun-2006 12:45
I think it looks great. Love the softness of the flower compared to the cactus.
Beryl Hauri-Gersch13-Jun-2006 11:38
Incredibly sharp to my eyes!
Jim Thode13-Jun-2006 03:26
That's sharp! Did you use an extension tube? Can you tell any difference if you reduce the file to less then 150kb?
Ron Crain13-Jun-2006 03:20
Ouch! Yes, I'd say it's sharp enough!
Guest 13-Jun-2006 03:04
You got your point across. great shot.
Guest 13-Jun-2006 02:56
Looks great to me Doug.
Steve Fink13-Jun-2006 02:50
Fantastic DOF (bokeh) along with fantastic detail and sharpness!
Don 13-Jun-2006 02:38
Looks pretty sharp to me, all over :)
Hard to improve on nature. Nice picture !
dawn13-Jun-2006 02:14
colours, texture and bokeh are all great--I'm just not a fan of the centered image usually. But that's a personal opinion, and this is a very nicely executed image.