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17-JUN-2006 Franky2005

Come Down To Earth*
by Franky2005

Sony DSC-V3
1/640s f/6.3 at 8.4mm iso100 hide exif
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Date/Time17-Jun-2006 12:59:36
MakeSony
ModelDSC-V3
Flash UsedNo
Focal Length8.4 mm
Exposure Time1/640 sec
Aperturef/6.3
ISO Equivalent100
Exposure Bias-0.70
White Balance
Metering Modematrix (5)
JPEG Quality (6)
Exposure Programaperture priority (3)
Focus Distance

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Franky2005 25-Jun-2006 20:53
Please note I did move this image from the eligible to the exhibition gallery myself intentionally. Nothing to worry, just my personal preference not to be part of the voting there. Thanks a lot for all yoour comments.

Cheers, Frank
Helen Betts24-Jun-2006 19:28
Oh, I love the selective color and composition. Very nice! Helen
Barbara Heide24-Jun-2006 17:54
Franky, thanks for you comment.. I have put a cropped version in the demo folder...
zato-ichi 24-Jun-2006 00:10
I think it works perfectly the way it is.
Any "fixing up" would be a different concept, a different image, a different world.
Those who look to improve what others do should work on their own efforts first.
;-)
Barbara Heide23-Jun-2006 23:56
yess, I like that! The composition is beautiful...
Guest 23-Jun-2006 08:18
This is great! Beautiful toning, very effective perspective and fine detail. You've captured excellent detail on those stones and even appear to have used DoF towards the top - I can't quite tell due to the small size of the shot but it seems that way to me. I'm not usually a fan of selective desaturation but here it does work - possibly because the yellow is so close to white anyway. The strongest element of this is defiantely the pattern you've created with your camera angle - good choice to show it at a horizontal as well as vertical angle. The central positioning of the flowers also works well - due to the pattern I'm not even aware of where in the frame the flowers are.

Negatives? The quality isn't quite what I'd want - I think that's down to overexposure on some parts of the plants blowing out detail in the whites. The stone on the right is particularly bad as are the daisy petals. Looking at the EXIF you took this at 1pm - I'm going to plead with you to reshoot this at a different time of day (or even a cloudy day with less light intensity!) - do so and I'll have literally nothing to whinge about.

Great effort! Adam Bramley
Sony Forums Challenges22-Jun-2006 13:21
The desaturated environment works great! Very good choice for the theme too. MCsaba
inframan 21-Jun-2006 22:40
Wish I'd thought of that!
;-)