Motif- Southwest- Joshua Trees and Desert in bloom


Posted by stevebein on Tue Sep 09, 2003 3:43 pm

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Antelope Valley this year was wonderful and many major photographers were about .
I liked this scene, with the joshua treea, mountains in the background and the flowers in the foregrouns. The seemed to be overflowing everywhere, so I made them overflow the frame with a little cloning. Hope you like it.
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by Simon A on Tue Sep 09, 2003 4:39 pm
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Nice image -- not sure whether I like the framing or not, will have to do a couple of retakes to decide.

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by Dan Baumbach on Tue Sep 09, 2003 4:52 pm
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Steve, your boarders on the frame aren't secure. I have flowers dripping out from the picture all over my keyboard. :)

Nice photo. It reminds me of an old postcard. I guess it's those Kodachrome colors.

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by Lillian Roberts on Tue Sep 09, 2003 5:17 pm
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Hi, Steve! I really like that you are experimenting with PS. I think this is a cute idea with the flowers spilling over, and the more I look at it the better I like it (wasn't sure at first.)

There's more artifact in the sky than you may have intended. Might be time to add that other monitor. ;)

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by Ken Cravillion on Tue Sep 09, 2003 6:41 pm
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Well, the flowers are ozing out! Undecied about the frame though.
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by robert hasty on Tue Sep 09, 2003 7:47 pm
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Nice photo, dont like the flowers spill thing myself :wink: the horizen seems tilted in the bg but that minor, nice image!!

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by Anders on Tue Sep 09, 2003 9:53 pm
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Ahh nice!

I like the colors and the nice shapes of the trees. A distraction is that the horizon appears to be significantly CCW tilted.


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by thapamd on Tue Sep 09, 2003 11:36 pm
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Steve, good composition. Colors are nice, but a bit oversaturated...not too crazy about the flower spilling out thing either.
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by E.J. Peiker on Wed Sep 10, 2003 12:22 am
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Looks like JPEG compression was your enemy here due to all of the detail. I like the shot although personally the frame is a bit too post-modern nouveau :mrgreen:
 

by Svein-Frode on Wed Sep 10, 2003 5:10 am
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Great scene, but I'm not a great fan of the presentation. The composition is a little heavy on the left side. I might have liked to see a vertical version with more flowers in the FG and only Joshuas in the BG.
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by Harvey Edelman on Thu Sep 11, 2003 10:51 am
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Other than the framing which isn't to my particular liking, I find the image itself to be well crafted and attractive.
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