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Seems as if most of my flower shots have a critter with them

As always your nits, crits and suggestions are most appreciated.

Thank you for looking and hope you enjoy.

Birdie







Mar 05, 2016 at 08:34 PM
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p.1 #2 · p.1 #2 · The Japanese Magnolia and Guest


Gorgeous color! Spot on focus on the critter. Wonderful details there.


Mar 05, 2016 at 08:47 PM
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Another one of your super captures with excelent sharpness and exposure. You might want to try a square crop taking off the bright part of the bottom leaf. I've enjoyed this image.

Morris



Mar 05, 2016 at 09:04 PM
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That is a beauty Birdie. Glad you posted it.


Mar 05, 2016 at 11:23 PM
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Im fond of the play of light in this image Birdie. Its a floral with a frog bonus and a brilliant one at that. However cut the comp down the middle of this flower and you could make it a 'frog' shot in a floral setting

It is peaceful and beautiful

Karl



Mar 06, 2016 at 12:12 AM
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p.1 #6 · p.1 #6 · The Japanese Magnolia and Guest


Beautiful shot, Birdie. Any cropping would not improve it for me.

Tony



Mar 06, 2016 at 12:58 AM
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That's just cool!


Mar 06, 2016 at 12:59 AM
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Excellent Birdie


Mar 06, 2016 at 07:34 AM
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p.1 #9 · p.1 #9 · The Japanese Magnolia and Guest


Beautiful image and the apparently resting "critter" just adds to it.

Brian M.



Mar 06, 2016 at 08:30 AM
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p.1 #10 · p.1 #10 · The Japanese Magnolia and Guest


Beautiful image, Birdie!


Mar 06, 2016 at 08:37 AM
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A great shot birdie, but I do agree with Morris about a horizontal crop to remove the bright leat. Karl's suggestion would also work, but, as he said, will change the focus of the shot ~ Ron


Mar 06, 2016 at 09:49 AM
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Well I love the shot and if it was mine I might just crop it the way you did That said before reading the other comments my thoughts for changing this one up were to make it a narrow vertical comp, along the lines of Karl's thoughts but with even less flower and more dead space on the right. I'm not sure that would be an improvement, more you would get two great shots out of one!

Tim



Mar 06, 2016 at 10:34 AM
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At first I did not like the way the light fell on the leaf, but with returned viewing, it seems entirely natural. That is how the light fell at this particular time. Although it does bring my attention down to that less critical part of the image, my eye quickly bounces back to the critter in sharp relief. So, it seems balanced to me. Perfection is not always ideal.


Mar 06, 2016 at 11:01 AM
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Beautiful image, Birdie. I really like this a lot. Excellent work.


Mar 06, 2016 at 11:44 AM
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What a beautiful capture..!!

Marcelo



Mar 07, 2016 at 09:26 AM
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Viewed on black this is really beautiful Birdie. I really like the varying levels of light hitting different parts of the image.
Beautiful color and detail, effective DOF, and terrific composition as always. Super image.

Kirk



Mar 07, 2016 at 09:46 PM
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Now that's a shot, very unique and most interesting photo to look at.


Mar 07, 2016 at 11:00 PM
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Brev00 wrote:
Gorgeous color! Spot on focus on the critter. Wonderful details there.


Thank you very much.
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morris wrote:
Another one of your super captures with excelent sharpness and exposure. You might want to try a square crop taking off the bright part of the bottom leaf. I've enjoyed this image.

Morris



Morris, thank you. I struggled with the crop and normally would have cropped in tighter. However on this one , I really like how the dappled light through the trees hits the leaf and kind of leads one up to the frog.

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KCollett wrote:
That is a beauty Birdie. Glad you posted it.


Thanks so much Ken.

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Karl Witt wrote:
Im fond of the play of light in this image Birdie. Its a floral with a frog bonus and a brilliant one at that. However cut the comp down the middle of this flower and you could make it a 'frog' shot in a floral setting

It is peaceful and beautiful

Karl


Really appreciate it Karl. I actually was shooting just for the frog , but I liked the way the light fell on the whole scene. I do have some that are more the frog on flower

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Imagemaster wrote:
Beautiful shot, Birdie. Any cropping would not improve it for me.

Tony


I do appreciate that Tony, thank you.

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Trey Neal wrote:
That's just cool!


Glad you like it.

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Ted ellis wrote:
Excellent Birdie


Thanks so much Ted.

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brimull wrote:
Beautiful image and the apparently resting "critter" just adds to it.

Brian M.


Brain, thank so much. The critters are usually what catch my eye first

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mitesh wrote:
Beautiful image, Birdie!


Appreciate it Mitesh.

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surfnron wrote:
A great shot birdie, but I do agree with Morris about a horizontal crop to remove the bright leat. Karl's suggestion would also work, but, as he said, will change the focus of the shot ~ Ron


Thanks so much Ron ! 99% of the time I would crop much tighter , but this one I went for something a bit different because of how the light was falling. Different is not always better, I know

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Tim Kuhn wrote:
Well I love the shot and if it was mine I might just crop it the way you did That said before reading the other comments my thoughts for changing this one up were to make it a narrow vertical comp, along the lines of Karl's thoughts but with even less flower and more dead space on the right. I'm not sure that would be an improvement, more you would get two great shots out of one!

Tim



Much appreciate Tim. Have not thought of more space of the right!

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Brev00 wrote:
At first I did not like the way the light fell on the leaf, but with returned viewing, it seems entirely natural. That is how the light fell at this particular time. Although it does bring my attention down to that less critical part of the image, my eye quickly bounces back to the critter in sharp relief. So, it seems balanced to me. Perfection is not always ideal.



Your description is how I see it also, thanks so much.
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HarveyGold wrote:
Beautiful image, Birdie. I really like this a lot. Excellent work.


Appreciate Harvey, thank you

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Lightsearcher wrote:
What a beautiful capture..!!

Marcelo


Glad you like it Marcelo.

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KirkB wrote:
Viewed on black this is really beautiful Birdie. I really like the varying levels of light hitting different parts of the image.
Beautiful color and detail, effective DOF, and terrific composition as always. Super image.

Kirk


Much appreciated Kirk. I was going for how the light was falling as much as the frog.

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louie champan wrote:
Now that's a shot, very unique and most interesting photo to look at.


Thanks Louie.




Mar 08, 2016 at 09:27 AM
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He looks so peaceful. Lovely shot Birdie...


Mar 08, 2016 at 09:29 AM





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