Taken in the woods while hiking with the sun low in the sky to backlight the "hairs". Some may have liked this in greyscale, but really wanted the natural look to include the muted winter colors here.
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I immediately loved those little backlit hairs on the plant, they are beautiful. The composition is nice, also, letting the eye wander nicely up and to the left of the plant and therefore leading the viewer through much of the photo. The plant is nicely complemented by the 'mottled' background. It is sufficiently out of focus to enhance, rather than distract, but it does add texture and interest to a photo that would've been plain without it.
The plant is nice and crisply in focus, however, the hairs are blown out in several places. It's nothing major that really detracts from the image, but bracketing your shot with higher and lower exposures could've gotten you one that was a little less overexposed without being too dark. I'd have to see it to be sure, backlit objects are hard to photograph and you did do a good job. There are no obvious signs of post-processing, so, whatever you did, you did well.
The photo easily meets the challenge, the 7 can be spotted immediately.
I really like simplistic nature images like this, and you should be proud to have spotted it ... to often we just walk past these things unseeing. Keep up the good work :)
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So many 7's, laughs, this is one of the pricklier ones :) I like your DOF, and the detail on this uh, plant is very successfully caught. well done. high marks. annida
wow. excelent focus and clarity. we can see in great detail each of the little fuzzies.the background is very nicely blurred and not distracting at all. definately a natural number. good angle and framing/cropping. the color and lighting conditions are also great. good luck in the challenge.
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