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Canon DSLR Challenge | all galleries >> Challenge 45: Creative Wide Angle (hosted by Gayle Knowles) >> Eligible > sunflowers III*

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11th June	Andy Syed

sunflowers III*

France

iso 100 1/100th sec f/8 18mm

Taken at 9am.

Canon EOS 300D Digital Rebel ,Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6

other sizes: small medium original auto

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Mikel Featherston		12-Jul-2005 20:39
This is a very cool image.

Canon DSLR Challenge		12-Jul-2005 16:53
That's awfully good, Andy. You've got my vote...and it was interesting to see this develop over time. Best wishes, Traveller

Canon DSLR Challenge		12-Jul-2005 10:27
********** Version III ********** The mutant sunflowers grow many heads, smaller and taller. So i havent staged this. andy

Canon DSLR Challenge		12-Jul-2005 06:25
Olaf, i haven't been following the tour. However, i do have opportunity to go and have a look on Sunday (stage 15). It is a busy time for me because we leave france for five weeks on tuesday (visiting family in scotland). On return, we have three wks unitl returning to Oz. andy

Canon DSLR Challenge		12-Jul-2005 00:24
Voting starts in less than 24 hours! You have until 2AM Wednesday to get "fixed". Being situated in France, do you follow Le Tour de France at all? Pretty interesting things going on, especially seen with Danish eyes! -- Olaf.dk

Canon DSLR Challenge		11-Jul-2005 22:18
Olaf, I much appreciated yur earlier comments. Having reshot this i agree this isnt as good. Sunflowers do not point to the sun as i thought and just face the same way all the time. Hence it was a very bad time to try and shoot them since they all point the same way. I may have another go tomorrow morning. Its fun anyway. andy

Guest		11-Jul-2005 22:02
Please, please put back the orignial! This is nice too, but the bright colors and unusual composition in the original was way more interesting!

Canon DSLR Challenge		11-Jul-2005 21:40
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Canon DSLR Challenge		11-Jul-2005 13:00
To be honest its no big deal to reshoot. Its just around the corner. Its just around every corner at this time of year. Andy

Canon DSLR Challenge		11-Jul-2005 12:01
There is another way to balance this, you could use the clone tool and add a bit more of the horizon (tree and hill) just under the petal that exposes the sky, this would give you the str8 line you are looking for. Rob

Canon DSLR Challenge		11-Jul-2005 09:43
Wow, this is beautiful. Bright, summery and bold. I wish we had masses of sunflowers around here....if I'm lucky I'd see one poor, struggling specimen a year! Gayle

Canon DSLR Challenge		11-Jul-2005 06:31
Horizon is of course on a slope. Straightening it would be a reshoot because ive got no leeway on the left. If ive got time will reshoot today. andy

Guest		11-Jul-2005 02:11
Did you notice how the dark center of the main flower is shaped like a heart? Due to this fact, I would have liked a teensy sliver more on the left...

Guest		11-Jul-2005 02:07
First of all, you can add me to the fan-list of this photograph! (*) I think a polarizing filter could possibly have made this even better, I'm thinking in the leaves of the flowers, whose color is a bit dull, military green (too warm WB?). Lonnit, I think this is actually level and you are looking at a hill! The stems of the sunflowers are close to being vertical, same goes for the trees in the background.

ctfchallenge		10-Jul-2005 23:21
Yes, I really like the image too, but the tilted horizon is also driving me nuts. ~ Lonnit

Guest		10-Jul-2005 22:46
Love the subject and the way you've treated the flower in the foreground. But the slanted horizon is driving me crazy. As I look at this if you rotate to level the horizon then it will look like the flowers are leaning to the right. I don't know what's worse!

Canon DSLR Challenge		10-Jul-2005 22:20
Andy this is a very good shot. Sun flowers are very odd , I first thought it was some sort of toy. Rob

Canon DSLR Challenge		10-Jul-2005 21:29
Thanks for commenting Vikas and Lee. For once it is not a crop, except for a shace off the right edge. andy

Canon DSLR Challenge		10-Jul-2005 21:16
Great range of colors Andy. theFly

Canon DSLR Challenge		10-Jul-2005 14:06
WOW, what a beautiful scene Andy, really really lovely. The wonderful colours, the sky, the main sunflower cropped just right, make it a great shot. Cheers, Vikas.