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Critique Please - flowers

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Urbanace

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I just purchased an SD500. The picture quality far exceeds my old Kodac so I'm having a little bit of trouble deciding which shots are good, which are only so-so, and what should go straight to the recyle bin. I picked my favorites from the series. You can see the rest at www.dudenhofferstudios.com . Please comment.

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wildflower001.jpg


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Quite nice! My only thought was that the orange on the first pic (wiht the bee) is a bit overpowering - maybe desaturate that orange a hair. Otherwise, I think they're great.
 
I only have PS CS to work with. I applied a dark blue photo filter at 48% to the flower portion of the photo. Do you think that's better?

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I'd go for something a little in between - there's much more detail to the flower in the edited one (the top one just loses a lot due to the intensity of the orange) but I think now it's a little too dark. I'd like it closer to the edited one though.

I also see a bit of the bight orange at the tips of some of the petals - probably just getting it edited quickly to get more comments, but for a finished product you could clean that up a bit more :)

(and of course, this is all just MY opinion - there may well be others with other thoughts!)
 
I tweaked it a bit more. I switched to a lighter blue/green filter and dropped it to 42%.

Thanks for your help!
 
Looking pretty good - only thing I notice is that they all look a wee bit soft (the last one in particular). However, that could be due to this work CRT I'm viewing on at the moment. Did you apply any USM or sharpening via Photoshop?

I was out shooting some flowers a week or so ago as well. :)

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You're right, they do look a little soft. I ran a sharpen filter but had no idea what the unsharp mask did. I played around with the usm filter for a bit and ran it over all the pics. It gives the effect I was trying to achieve with the sharpen filter but without all the noise. Thanks for the tip.

-- Brad
 
oh, by the way, I LOVE the last one - that color just leaps out and is so perfect
 
Urbanace said:
You're right, they do look a little soft. I ran a sharpen filter but had no idea what the unsharp mask did. I played around with the usm filter for a bit and ran it over all the pics. It gives the effect I was trying to achieve with the sharpen filter but without all the noise. Thanks for the tip.

-- Brad
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Yup, USM is great. Typically (depending on the photo), I'll use about 40% standard sharpening, and then apply USM. I find it to be a good balance between the two - you get the benefits of both filters without the drawbacks of either.
 
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