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    Nikon D300
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    ISO 200; 1/20 sec @ f/22

    This recent image is from an outdoor rose garden at Longwood Gardens. Because the sun in a cloudless sky was intense as noon approached, a diffusing screen was held between the sun and the rose. The Shadows and Highlights tool in PS CS5 was used to tone down the highlights and brighten the darker regions of the rose a bit.

    Your C&C are welcome!

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    I am so happy to see a flower posted on the forum. We've been focusing on insects and butterflies lately. This image is an excellent example of using a diffuser on a sunny day. Beautiful colors. There are a couple of little imperfections in the rose which I would clone out. I'm a fan of close crops, and might crop this image all around taking a bit more off the right to get the center of the flower more in the right third of the image. Lovely work.

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    What a beautiful rose! I, too, am happy to see another flower. We've been besieged with the little bugs lately!

    One thing I do on a crop this close is to make sure all the corners are blended so no hard lines are peeking in at the very edges. For instance, on your two top corners, I'd clone from the petal just inside the frame all the way to the frame so it appears that you've closed in the frame with those same petals leading outside. (Does that make sense?) I'd do that on your two top corners and the LLC as well. The one on the lower right is a great example of what I'm talking about.

    Oh...fantastic lighting and exposure on this! That diffuser did wonders!

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    Hi

    A nice little image overall with your diffuser application working quite well to help control what sounds like quite awful lighting for a floral subject – so excellent work upon this aspect in my opinion.

    Processing wise – for my tastes this is coming over as being highly saturated, which is perhaps resulting in your image losing a little of the finer petal details. So personally I would consider lowering the saturated look and allowing the petal texture and little patterns to shine through a tad more

    Compositionally – I’d agree about watching those all important edge areas. Cropping this very slightly and going for four clean looking corner areas would imo strengthen the overall composition tremendously.

    But overall an appealing image taken in less than ideal light, which is quite impressive

    All the best
    Matthew

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    Hey Norm,
    See you made it to my favorite gardens!!! I'm with the ceop group.....slight clean up of the outside edges will only further strengthen the comp. Yes....saturation is a bit much....loosing a bit of the detail....but an easy PP fix and doesn't detract from the wonderful way you handled the light and overall comp!

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    I agree with the comments made concerning saturation and cropping, and I've taken a shot at addressing them here. Hope this repost works better.

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    I've gone back and forth between the original and the repost, and I like the repost better. You did a nice job! Great image!

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    Nice job with the suggestions Norm! Re-post realy shines!

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