gathered leaves from my aptt, and arranged on a white board to get this shot. Thanks to Mona for her advice and help with this project.
Post Processing:
crop ( getting a more squarish shape from my 3:2 ratio)
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selective brightness/contrast
selective hue/saturation
dodged background on corner
sized to dpc submission and framed
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Place: 7 out of 215 Avg (all users): 6.6383 Avg (commenters): 7.9444 Avg (participants): 6.3525 Avg (non-participants): 7.1667 Views since voting: 2475 Views during voting: 331 Votes: 188 Comments: 33 Favorites: 13 (view)
This is a great idea and done very well. I'm not too sure about the placement of the leaves. Nothing really wrong with how they are, but I might like to see something a little spread out. I'm sure you tried lots of different looks.
White background for a minimal look was a good choice, imo. I would have liked the colors to pop just a little bit more against the white. Not sure how you would do that, since I"m not great at that sort of thing myself.
In any event...I do like the shot the way it is. Very creative.
Thanks everyone for such wonderful coomments. I am really happy to get a place in the top10.
For those who asked about these leaves, spent half an hour roaming around the aptt to find these leaves and I was luck to get these all the fading colors.
I have a lot to learn from DPC and I am looking forward to participate in more challenges.
Sheesh. Wondered how you got these leaves in all stages of growth and decline. Good job!
Congrats on your top ten finish...well thought out...well deserved finish.!!!
I adore this shot. I've already voted you an 8 but had to come back and comment. Great composition, great concept and its technically great too! Kudos to you for finding the perfect leaves to illustrate your point. :D
This is excellent. Not sure how you managed it but this is perfect for the challenge. A large number of entried 'fail' to convey Botany. This works though on all levels.
Nice capture conveying an interesting idea. Colors are terrific. Lighting is okay but possibly a little flat and you've almost lost the shadows. Maybe the single light source was too bright and multiple less intense sources would have improved.
Great intrepretation and presentation. The transition from green to dried is marvelous. The white background is perfect as is exposure. I really like the leaves that have shadows - maybe stronger side-lighting would have applified the shadows, making it even stronger. One of my top picks so far.
Neat .. and TOTALY on the challenge .. not just a macro of a flower .. which doesn't really depict "plant life" .. but this is honestly perfect .. challenge and photo vise .. this should definatelly place if I had my way about it .. if I could give it more than 10 I would.
Excellent. 10! The different colours look great! How did you find all the right leaves? I think if you made the 'circle/cycle' more obvious, rather than it looking like a line, it would be even better :)
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