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Published: 2014-05-29 01:00:05 +0000 UTC; Views: 302; Favourites: 15; Downloads: 2
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Dunno why the flowes seem like powdered with gold powder. But it seems nice, doesn´t it.
Dedicated to who seems to like flowers. I hope that you´ll like this one too.
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This is a lovely subject, interesting and well framed.
Unfortunately, I think the impact of the shot is greatly reduced by the fact that it's entirely over-exposed; which washed out too many of the textural details in the petals and dulled the colors. This is a common problem with shooting in full sunlight...living in Florida, it's something I've had to contend with almost every time I shoot.
To correct / avoid this, when shooting in the bright sun of Florida (and of Summer especially in more Northern / far South Southern hemisphere locations), I have found that I get much richer colors and much finer details if I close down the aperture way down (us an f-stop of somewhere between 9 and 14, typically) and shoot with a shutter speed down somewhere around 1/160 to 1/250.
Another way to fix this on macro / close-up shots like this, is to make sure the subject is completely covered by shadow. Because I'm a fat, middle-aged guy, for me that means just moving my massive bulk into place as a sun block. You may find you need some additional "portable shade" like an umbrella, a book or something else to block enough sun.
Anyway, I hope this helps. In general, I love your work, but I wouldn't rate this image as one of your better ones.
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Sorry, but this was shot at late evening indoors and overexposure was caused by flash, which was fully intended. Without overexposure, golden glitter on petals isn´t visible. Considering that I wanted to create this effect, I used flash from very close distance.
But thank you for advices anyways.
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No worries...and no hard feelings, I hope. I'm always a little hesitant to critique anyone else's work for fear of insulting them.
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Don´t worry about that, I don´t mind critiques.
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Cool.
Me, neither. I've learned a lot from other folks critiquing my work (and some were pretty harsh, too! 
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Greetings from the Project Comment tagline (finally!) 
The reason I chose this image instead of the other shot of these flowers (Fire fairy) is that I think this is the better shot. It works better compositionally, with the blooms arranged down an upper-right to lower-left diagonal, and the depth of field is nicer in this piece. (I don't think you have a massive amount of aperture control with the DMC-FX8, I'm not sure to what extent you were able to fiddle around with f-stop values and so on, but it looks good anyway!)
The colours are indeed beautiful, and the title is well-chosen. The light catching on the petals is very pretty and gives a magical effect.
I think that the image may be very slightly over-exposed, but again, I don't know that you can do much about that with this type of camera. You did a nice job; this looks very attractive!
Your tag is: feathers.
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Thank you very much for your thoughtfull comment.
I´m glad that you like composition and colours of this peace, my camera is really non professional as taking photos is only my hobby, so I´m glad that you like result anyway.
Overexposure is intention in this photo, because without it, flowers would be deep red, with no golden. Dunno why, I´m not expert on flowers, but when overexposed, geranium gets this beautiful golden shine.
Once again, thanks for comment. Feedback means a lot to me.
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