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    Default My Very First Floral Post..ever!

    Alright, had some down time this past weekend and decided to try
    Denise Ippolito's e-guide on Pleasing Blurs.

    This is the first one. I can't remember the exact details cause I'm
    doing this from work, but it was shot with the Canon 1D Mark IV,
    70-200 F2.8 I lens with a slight upward movement. I was in
    Shutter Priority, somewhere between .6 and 1 second.

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    Doug this is great - love it. I am not usually a fan of blurred images but occasionally one floats my boat and this one does! I like the colours but just perhaps the greens are a little vivid(??) maybe not I wasn't there!

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    Thanks Jonathan. Maybe I'll post another one :)

    If I remember, I think I went a little extra on the vivid on purpose. The 'normal' greens just seemed
    to ordinary for me. I wanted it to jump out a little more.

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    Hi Doug, Love this. Agree the added saturation gives it more of that painterly look and really pops. Inspires me to try this myself and I rarely if ever shoot floral. Creative and well done. -- Allen

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    Thanks Allen. I actually tried flower photography, but sucked at it. So I became a bird photographer.
    But lately on the slow days for birds, I've been doing more floral and getting a little better. Reading
    and following Denise has helped me tremendously.

    Doug

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    Lovely abstract, Doug. Loved the rich vibrant colours there. Nice panning job. Did you invert this image in post ?I however find the orangish-yellow spot towards right-top, a bit interfering with the harmony of the rest of the image.
    Might try a 4x5 crop on this frame by cutting off 1 inch from the right.
    Just my thoughts.

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    Nope, no inverting.

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    Hey, you should post this in OOTB! We love blurs over there! (Just a bit of promotion on my part !) Nice layers of very saturated colors. Denise is the queen of flowers & creativity so you're have picked a good mentor.

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    Wow. Flowers and a blur. I love the fact that you got the top to bottom framing just right on this vertical pan blur. I'd back off on the vivid a bit :). I will send Lady D a link.
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    Thanks Artie. I guess there's a little bit of influence from you and Denise in this with the blurs and top/bottom
    framing.

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