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first impressions?

Postby NJ on Fri Nov 18, 2005 10:36 pm

what are your first impressions of this photo? before you look at in more detail and all, i want to know what are your initial impression when u first lay your eyes on the image? just want different types of thoughts on this one, for someting different. i know it has a lot of OOF area on it, but i dont mind that.
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Postby owen on Sat Nov 19, 2005 8:44 am

When I first look at it I noticed the red OOF area. Then I was searching for anything that was in focus and noticed a tiny bit of the white petals. I'm not sure if this is what you were tryin to achieve or not, but it's what I did first.

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Postby TonyH on Sat Nov 19, 2005 8:50 am

Hi Nathan,

I'm sorry to be negative, but all I saw was an out of focus photograph.

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Postby Killakoala on Sat Nov 19, 2005 10:12 am

The first impression i got was the contrast of colours. Then my eyes wandered all over the photograph but predominantly in the white area.
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Postby petermmc on Sat Nov 19, 2005 11:02 am

I think you have to search too much for its meaning. This kind of photo should jump out and bite you on the nose. I think if the petal on the left had more definiton and was bigger and finely in focus, this could have worked.

Apart from all that, well done. :D

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Postby NJ on Sat Nov 19, 2005 3:02 pm

they were the kind of comments i was looking for, thanks guys! i think that was the very first photo i had taken with the D50. i had never really thought about posting it, because of all the OOF, but was a bit bored so why not.
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Postby LOZ on Sat Nov 19, 2005 3:22 pm

My first impression was it was taken with my 24-120 VR :roll:
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