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Aurobindo Saha
{K:2396} 3/6/2006
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Thank you Partha. Many people has varried views about this picture. Thanks for adding your input too.
Take care
Aurobindo
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Partha Pal
{K:11619} 2/26/2006
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It is a very charmful picture. The Flowers look so lively. very vibrant colour tone and the colour balance is beautiful.
Picture perfect.
Partha
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Aurobindo Saha
{K:2396} 9/14/2005
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Thanks awais for sharing your views
Aurobindo
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awais yaqub
{K:298} 9/14/2005
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great shot
that small out of focus flower is distracting view of focused flower
your friend
awais
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Aurobindo Saha
{K:2396} 9/14/2005
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Thanks to Sharmishtha and Helen for your kind comments.
Thanks
Aurobindo
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Aurobindo Saha
{K:2396} 9/14/2005
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Hi Painsama
Thanks painsama for your feedback. Yes most people came up with this view only - "Nature is like this - uncluttered" If its arranged it becomes a gift bouquet :)
I am glad you like this picture.
Thanks
Aurobindo
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Aurobindo Saha
{K:2396} 9/14/2005
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Hi Glen,
Thanks for your comments. I am glad this picture makes us happy.
Thanks
Aurobindo
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Sharmistha Banerjee
{K:73} 9/14/2005
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Great shot...and lovely colours
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Helen Bach
{K:2331} 9/14/2005
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I find it very evocative of the joy of nature. I look at it and think 'Yes, real gardens are like that. That's how they are, that's how nature does things.'
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painsama
{K:4902} 9/14/2005
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As mentioned by the photographer himself, the picture looks cluttered. But for me, it feels like being there, in form of a child, short, walking in the field of flowers, looking up at the beauty of the flowers. What I like most in this picture is the color combination; yellow and green. Very beautiful adn refreshing.
Regards.
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Glen Converse
{K:2000} 9/14/2005
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Wow! Such a happy image, eh?
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Debarshi Duttagupta
{K:26815} 8/31/2005
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Toke akta suggestion di, amar aei tip ta Times Journal of Photogrpahy te published hoyechilo. Tui jodi parish, then first din bhor bela uthe, khub detail e track rakh at what time kirakom morning light hocche , and the position jekhan theke tui pics gulo tulbi. First din ta bhalo kore watch kore ne, (obviously sedin o tulbi), but sedin bhalo kore observe korle next din chabuk chobi uthbe.
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Aurobindo Saha
{K:2396} 8/31/2005
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Hi Domjan,
Thanks for your thoughtful input. Its the way a viewer looks into a photograph and the thought or expectation he or she has in his mind. These different views helps a photographer to improve.
Thanks once again for your feedback.
Aurobindo
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Domjan Svilkovic
{K:3104} 8/31/2005
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Me again :)
I have to say that I don't agree with your wife on the stated points. :) Why would you have to have a central, singular point of interest? Even though I normaly prefer a more simple, uncrowded composition I certanly do not think that that is the only way to shoot a floral macro! Maybe your photo does not posess a elegant, lyric beauty of a minimalistic composition (one aspect of nature) but it is very dynamic and chaotic (as nature often is). The subject of your photo is not a beauty of any single flower but is what is probably an essence of a flower - it's need to grow and spread in every direction. The narrow DOF helps here by (as I have said) making a strong 3D impression - the flowers are everywhere! The photo is not only very dynamic in space but also in time. Dead flowers give it continuity - they don't live forever, but that's ok, new flowers will always rise. Where you have 3 horizontal (fallen) flowers you have 5 vertical!
Your wife looks at this photo completely wrong. Instead of trying to inspect individual flowers, observe the photo as the whole. The photo then cases to be mixed-up or untidy and becomes happy, optimistic and uplifting.
No, there is nothing fundamentally wrong with this photo. The only thing I would change is to try to move the dead flowers a bit out of focus - they are not important here. They should fade, as if to memory.
Anyway, that's what I think.
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Aurobindo Saha
{K:2396} 8/31/2005
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Thanks Debarshi for your sugessions. Hya re Utah and Western Colorado'te polarizer and tripod is must. Specially sweetlight photography will be good. Onekta grand canyon'er moto. Amar kache 400 ISO'r slide film ache. Bhabchi aro 4'te 200 ISO kinbo. Friday berochi firbo Monday. Sob niye pray 1700 mile drive. Ami desh excited. Dekha jak chobi kemon daray.
Aurobindo
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Debarshi Duttagupta
{K:26815} 8/31/2005
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Aurobindo, I think the best critique comes from you own home, im my case my parents and wife are the best supporters and worst critiques and I learn a lot from their observations. I have a fair idea of what UTAH and COLORADO landscapes look like, and on slides what should be great, just carry a MONOPO and a CIRCULAR POLARIZER, those tow are must. NITEI HOBE ! CHALIYE JA.
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Aurobindo Saha
{K:2396} 8/31/2005
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Hi,
Thanks to everyone for much appreciation about this photograph. I would like to share with you the criticisms that my wife came up after she saw the picture. And I agree many of her comments.
1. The major negative point of this picture is - the composition - there is no subject of interest in this picture. Which flower did I try to focus and call it the focal attraction? Some may say the one in the middle (almost horizontal) - but that is getting obstructed by another straight flower in its front - this is very distracting. The other two straight vertical ones cannot be focal interest or subject flower as they are not in sharp focus.
2. Very messy - Yes the picture is much cluttered and not a clean composition - please note there are 5 vertical stems and 3 horizontal stems. The mixture of these horizontal and vertical lines doesn?t give a good feel to viewer?s mind. Same applies for flowers - some are in horizontal profile and some are vertical - symmetry is greatly lost in this jungle.
3 Framing ? However framing is good. The OOF flowers in the lower left and right corners drags the viewer?s eyes to the center where the viewer is expecting to find the flower of interest.
I feel these three are valid points. If you look at the picture for some time, you will feel that your eye is searching for some point of interest, some alignments which are highly missing of getting distracted in the whole composition.
What do you say?
Thanks
Aurobindo
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Aurobindo Saha
{K:2396} 8/31/2005
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Thank you Debarshi for your constant support and nice appreciations. It's nice to have a friend like you.
I am planning to start some serious shots in N80 and EktaChrome slides from Friday at Utah and Western Colorado. Will definitely share if the outcome is up to the standard.
Thanks
Aurobindo
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Aurobindo Saha
{K:2396} 8/31/2005
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Thank you Domjan. Ya 3D :~) - I like that comment. You can refer to my wife's analysis about this picture that I posted below.
Thanks
Aurobindo
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Aurobindo Saha
{K:2396} 8/31/2005
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Thank you Galal, thanks for your kind appreciation.
- Aurobindo
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Aurobindo Saha
{K:2396} 8/31/2005
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Thank you Kathy. I like that you love this picture.
Aurobindo
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Aurobindo Saha
{K:2396} 8/31/2005
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Thank you so much Anindya for your kind appreciation. Yes you hace rightly noted - dried buds in reddish color brings some variation in the picture which other wise would have been very dull in cool colors of just yellow and green.
Thanks
Aurobindo
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Debarshi Duttagupta
{K:26815} 8/31/2005
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Superb shot Aurobindo, want to see shots coming out of you F80.
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Domjan Svilkovic
{K:3104} 8/30/2005
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Nice shot! Really 3D, thanks to a narrow DoF.
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Galal El Missary
{K:84569} 8/30/2005
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Beautiful shot , very nice colors & DOF , Kind regards .
Galal
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Kathy Hillard
{K:25721} 8/30/2005
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I love this shot! The colors make me smile! Great dof! Well done!
Kathy
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Anindya Maity
{K:7880} 8/30/2005
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Beautiful comp.I like how u've used the dried petals with naked buds along with the blooming flowers.
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