The best thing about DPC is it gets me out to do things I've never done before. I've lived in San Diego for 20 years, but this is the first time I'd ever gone to the flower fields and actually got out of the car and walked around. Amazing!
btw, the flowers are ranunculas.
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I'm amazed so many people commented that the horizon was tilted. It's actually a hillside, and if I'd straightened the horizon, the building and trees at the top of the hill would have been tilted strongly to the left, but whatever.
The only processing on the image was to darken the clouds a bit and clone out an outhouse. The flowers are straight out of the camera. It was taken at sunset on a cloudy day. The sun dropped below the clouds for a few minutes before the sun set, and there you have it.
btw, I agree with the DOF comments. I have other shots with a shorter lens and deeper DOF, but I entered this one because the colors were so spectacular. Bad choice on my part, probably.
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I guess if you were on a slope then taking it from a different perspective, or one without the buildings so that when "straightened" it would look normal.
The other thing after looking at it again is that it needs a lot more DOF, maybe a shorter lens too.
The pshop blur on the background doesn't do it for me. Neither does the colour saturation or altering, something looks off. Otherwise a gorgeous location and shot.
Great colors. Eye-catching composition, except that I don't see the point of the tilt for this shot. (don't mind me, I'm rather anti-tilt overall). Perhaps a wee bit overprocessed, but it IS expert editing, after all.
too shallow depth of field. Foreground and background are out of focus. I'd like to see the entire field in focus, or at least include the full foreground
Lovely hillside of flowers. I find the soft focus not to my taste. The light seems rather flat, perhaps shooting at a different time of day (if possible) would have added more depth to the shot. Compositionally, to me, it seems out of balance with buildings on the left at the top of the slope and nothing but sky a a little tree on the right overemphasizing the slant of the hill.
Not sure about your choice of depth of field here. It just seems rather random to have some of the flowers in the center in focus, while everything else is blurred. The tilting doesn't really add to it either, I'm afraid.
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