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11-JUL-2012 Jim B (MSP)

A Watered Day Lily

Resharpened.


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Canon Image Challenge16-Jul-2012 00:11
Sierra,
Thanks. I put a cropped version in pending for you.
The center is along the top 1/3 line.

Jim
Canon Image Challenge16-Jul-2012 00:04
K - thanks. I had also forgotten to sharpen this one more after it was converted. Try this.
Jim
Canon Image Challenge14-Jul-2012 11:52
Beautiful! A bit more sharp and that would be a real post-card shot!
K
Guest 13-Jul-2012 04:13
The flower is really beautiful, IMO it would look better with a crop of just the flower itself, and I think it would still follow the RO3rds.

Sierra
Michael Kilpatrick13-Jul-2012 03:12
I like the depth of field in this. I guess it might have been nice to have the closest parts of the flower sharp as well, but that would have brought too much of the background into focus. Have you tried focus stacking Jim? It's pretty easy in Photoshop and provides precise control over what's sharp and what isn't. Doesn't work if the subject is blowing around in the wind though. Regards, Michael
Canon Image Challenge12-Jul-2012 02:14
Thanks Paul. Re DOF - I never really know how much is "good". For shots like these, I try to get the whole flower in focus, but leave the back material a little out of focus. It might be better to get everything in better focus with a large f stop, then selectively blur some areas. But that doesn't always look good to me.
Jim
Canon Image Challenge11-Jul-2012 22:08
Thumbs up big guy, I like it a lot. A little more DOF would have been nice but it never seems to work out way. Paul