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laurak83 (328) 2006-10-19 2:15

Pretty flowers, and I like your interpretation. However,something about the yellow is so bright that it is hard to see the flowers sharply.

fijiphil (1355) 2006-10-19 22:00

Anita, I am in La Paz now, having just travelled the length of the Peninsula in the last week, so I know how well you did to find this splash of yellow amidst all the green and brown of the desert and the cacti.

I really like your composition with the contrasting colours but unfortunately there are just a few too many technical imperfections to justify two points.

First, I see you have tried to make the flower stand vertically at the expense of the background, but for me it doesn't work. That sloping horizon is just too distracting. I would have kept the horizon level and accepted the flower at an angle. I think it would have looked cool like that anyway.

Second, your focus is a little off on the flower. I could let you off with that, but in addition, your background focus is not good either. It's neither blurred enough to be a blank canvas of a background, and it's not sharp enough to be a landscape background. I think you were probably aiming for a sharp background but I guess you were at the mercy of your camera on that. Backing away from your subject a bit and then focussing on it may have helped keep the background sharp (or use of an SLR!!!)

Lastly, your sky is a little overexposed and washed out; you could try exposing for the sky to keep it nice and detailed; you'll find the foreground then is too dark but you can correct that on your computer.

Overall, a nice shot with lots to learn from it. TFS!!