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Old 11-11-2009, 09:24 AM
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Originally Posted by pix_e_l8 View Post
What a lovely shot of a beautiful flower! Whenever possible, I like to clone out a distracting object so that I retain the option of cropping - or not....
You've certainly done a neat job of the cloning. I like the colour boost on the flower although I think my preference would be to keep the green in the bottom right toned down; in truth, the original is underexposed and my best option would have been to find a slightly different viewpoint (avoiding the bright spot) and then drop the shutter speed a notch or two.

The intention was definitely to make the most of the foreground flower with the blurred background containing complementary shapes and colours.

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