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18-MAY-2004 Karthik

Inside an Orchid *

Canon EOS 10D
1/30s f/2.8 at 100.0mm iso100 hide exif
Full EXIF Info
Date/Time18-May-2004 15:05:08
MakeCanon
ModelEOS 10D
Flash UsedNo
Focal Length100 mm
Exposure Time1/30 sec
Aperturef/2.8
ISO Equivalent100
Exposure Bias
White Balance (-1)
Metering Modematrix (5)
JPEG Quality (6)
Exposure Program
Focus Distance

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Karthik Murugesan27-Aug-2004 16:49
I totatly agree with you on this. The flower was too small and that's the maximum blur I was able to get at the maximum aperture with the 100/2.8. Actually I tried gaussian blur here to blur the details further exactly like you mentioned, it didn't quite turn out well. Thanks for your constructive criticisim.

- Karthik.
Canon DSLR Challenge27-Aug-2004 14:36
Beautiful abstract! Obviously you wanted the very closest part of the petals sharp and everything else more or less out of focus. I can't help but wonder what it would have looked like with the tips of the next petals sharp instead. When I think about it, maybe that would just look like a mistake, whereas the way you chose to do it - it is obviously intentional. For some reason this works better when the image is smaller. On the large image it's a bit straining on my eyes as they keep trying to focus! Maybe there is too much detail in the unsharp parts of the image - maybe those parts should be even more blurry??? --Olaf