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Published: 2010-06-15 01:18:43 +0000 UTC; Views: 513; Favourites: 26; Downloads: 6
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as usual, not sure if i like this photo. i've been wanting to try something a little different than my usual stuff... and a couple days ago, i found myself stuck at my house without a car. therefore, i decided to take a bike ride down to the park.there was this pretty big patch of these little weeds... it reminded me, for some reason of my first outshine photo.
i wanted to show the numerous flowers, while also showing those trees (without cutting off their "heads," as well). but i wanted to focus on just one of the flowers, and have the rest in the background.
as i said before, still very unsure about what exactly i want to do with this picture. any feedback would be greatly appreciated
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i like the way the rest of the flowers are out of focus to make this one stand out more, it emphasises each flowers uniqueness i think
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the title is so true 
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I totally love that new style and I read through the posts seems like you did so pretty excellent post processing!!
I have one or two points I would like to raise maybe not applicable here as they depend on the original:
- The sky is burnt, I know it can be very hard to get detail in those contrasty situations so I would propose a slight clear blue layer over the sky area. Remember the lightest needs to be next to the trees and darkest at the corners.
- Framing : the problem is that the slightly rectangular format does not work in the case you are working on . You would either choose a very wide framing to emphasize on the isolation of your main subject or a portrait frame to stress on the depth that seperates your subject from the background. In this particular case I would lean toward a vertical framing that also follows the composition imposed by the long grass in front.
I hope you get to do more of those
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thanks
already tried to use a graduated filter on the sky to add some blue... but it went over the trees no matter what i did, and it looked really fake... i suppose i could try doing it manually, but it would probably end up looking very bad
gaaah it's really agonizing when i get suggestions to change cropping... this means i have to start completely over on the editing. in most cases, it's not a big deal, because i didn't alter very much... but this is not one of those cases. i had to clone out a lot of things that were distracting... and it was also very hard to fix up the whited out petals on the flower, the shadows in the trees, etc etc. the list goes on. but whatever. i shall do it nonetheless. think i'm going to try it as the wider one, although i'm not sure the picture is too much wider than it is here. i actually only cropped a tiny bit of the bottom on this picture... so try and imagine it in portrait format. i just think it would be missing something
i do? 
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I've got a few of these in the garden.
I think the perspective is an interesting one... I don't know about you, but the depth of field makes it almost like the focused flower is the onlooker, outsider, almost...
I really like the depth of field and how you have positioned this piece, although I feel that the bottom is a bit too tight, if that makes sense?
You could change the overall tone to one that is more profound, too, perhaps... either through a monotone or something else.
A vignette wouldn't hurt, either. That would give it a more collected feel, perhaps.
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i thought someone might not like how i cropped the bottom... so i saved a version of it with most of the bottom 
i was really trying to shy away from doing it in black and white. i've been doing too many of those recently. and i really like the blue dreamy feel to it right now... but i dunno... i may change my mind after a while
i tried a vignette when i was fixing it just now, but with that patch of sky in the top right hand corner, it just didn't look natural :/
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Ah, I see.
Indeed! I know what you mean, there... I think I have too many monochrome pieces, myself.
Oh right. That's quite understandable.
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I personally think the dark back ground trees take away the attention of the flower on the bottom (ie. they're the first things my eyes look at). This isn't necessarily a bad thing...Otherwise, the arrangement of a focussed flower in the foreground, and unfocussed flowers scattering out towards the background is really pretty ^_^
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thanks for the comment
i agree with you. the trees are too dark. unfortunately, i can't brighten them up too much without the picture looking really screwed up... but i tried selecting the top half of the photo and brightening the shadows. there was a pretty obvious line over the grass by the "horizon" but i just smudged it a little bit and it was fine. what do you think?
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Awesome! Your editing has made quite a big difference. My eye movement throughout the piece actually goes from bottom to up, and the focus on the flower is a bit more emphasized. I also think the whiteness of the flowers stand out a bit more for some reason (perfect!). I like it now...^_^
I don't think you should edit beyond what you've done, though. Well...I paint, and when I'm not satisfied with something, I try to fix it...however, if I do ever get to that point of satisfaction, but say to myself that, "oh, it would be nice if I could just change this a little..." I stop immediately because changing something too much might just make it worse. Haha, sorry for writing so much
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hooray 
haha yeah i agree. i do the same thing while i'm drawing sometimes and end up fucking up something that was originally beautiful
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The top of the flower looks a little too exposed to me. Perhaps darken those pedals up, as well as lighten up the stem a bit ? What about sharpening the focused flower a bit as well ?
I think I see the vision you're going for. I really like the light difference in the grass and the trees. Makes it appear that space is pretty vast. I think it looks good !
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unfortunately, the top of the flower was pretty much completely whited out. i tried to darken them as much as i could, but still isn't perfect. also brightened the stem of the flower.
thanks so much
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You're very welcome! A trick I learned in gimp, assume it will work in PS, create a transparent layer and paint areas with either white or black. Set the layer mode to overlay and it produces a dodge/burn effect in those areas. Can adjust the opacity to change brightness.
I use that a lot when I need to lighten or darken an area. Was excited when I learned that, thought I'd share the wealth
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there's a dodge and a burn tool in PS... which i used on it xP
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Gimp has those as well, I do the layer trick to have a little more control
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