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16 Jan 2008 |

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I deliberately softened this while comparing some processing ideas. I liked it so I kept it

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Stan	16 Jan 2008, 06:07

Looks like you've blown the red channel a quite a bit here. It kinda spoils what would have been a very nice flower shot. I don't get results anywhere this nice.

Paul Brentnall: Thanks Stan
I reckoned the exposure was a bit to long. I was trying to achieve a sharp centre with a soft surround but it didn't quite come off.

photogal

16 Jan 2008, 11:27

Oh! I can smell it from here, lovely.

Paul Brentnall: It certainly did have a wonderful scent

Kathryn from Germany

16 Jan 2008, 12:50

I see a few touches of the red being blown, but you know what Pops--if we pick apart each image to the point of thinking each must be perfect in every way, then I think we are missing the essence of our world, life, photography, art, etc. What do you think?

The few tiny spots don't detract me from enjoying the beauty of this rose...it's softness and lines and layers, the way the petals lay against each other. You've accented those qualities in your image.

Paul Brentnall: Personally I love it when critique is given. It gives the opportunity to make corrections in future shots. But you are right, if we only posted what we considered to be perfect photographs it would get very boring indeed. I do think though that reading different opinions and interpretations of a photograph helps to broaden the mind and encourages further self improvement.
Like Art...photographs are to be enjoyed and some imperfections can be ignored when the whole thing gives pleasure.

tim from leeds, uk

16 Jan 2008, 18:23

to me Paul beauty is in the eye of the beholder, if you feel a particular photo looks great regardless of all the so called rules of photography then in my book it is great, one mans meat etc, critics go wotp for me, photographs are there to be enjoyed a moment in time frozen for ever and if its got a few faults so what

Paul Brentnall: What are rules for but to be broken

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Ellie from chilly and damp UK

16 Jan 2008, 22:44

You know, the most important thing about photography is that the photographer has to be happy with what they do, otherwise there's absolutely no point in bothering because nobody is capable of satisfying everybody else's opinions.

I like this, I like the softness and I don't understand about blown reds, I wouldn't know one if I fell over it in the street.

I wonder though if you're brave enough to make it even softer and end up with wonderfully delicate ripples of red and pink - it'd be a true abstract

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