City - North Dandenong State - VICTORIA Country - Australia
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When the original photo of a dandelion was blownup it was suggestive of a mystic face. Taken at 200mm setting on macro with a mini tripod and shutter delay using available light and under expose by one stop and over saturate plus three. Setting at auto, in fine mode. Third photo of five, only resized and cropped in Photoshop.
Hi Angelo, just looked at the file excif info in Photoshop and I see that the settings are auto which gives ISO 100 and the speed was 1/350th at F8, not the 1/15th at F? that I put on the photo description. Slipped up there. The time was late afternoon with low sun angle and shade and no flash, so available light picked up the background ground litter colours. The noise probably resulted from a resolution of 'Fine' setting which gives a file size of about 2MB and then cropping to 1/10 of the image size.The original composition was discarded in favour of the other Dandelion photo I uploaded previously, but on further investigation, for a different effect, saw the 'face' in the middle of this shot, and decided to try for an abstract presentation, colour and all.I tend to shoot at fairly low resolutions(for a 5MB camera) for economy and file size as I don't normally blow up and crop out so vigorously, and find that file sizes of 2MB gives good A4 prints for my local photo club meets.Thanks for your comments, I only just uploaded it. regards Ian Pearson.
A nice subject, and I like your approach with the tight composition and crop. The macro focusing is good and it has brought out some nice details.
There are some technical aspects which I feel let the shot down a bit. One is the light. There appears to be a strong orange cast, which I find unpleasant (ignore me if it's the effect you wanted all along). Was this shot indoors using tungsten lighting?
The other issue is noise. There is a lot of it visible. I see you are using a tripod and shutter delay (good thinking!) to minimise shake. In that case, why not go for the lowest available ISO setting?
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