Trojan horse? No, Wood Anemone

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• Porteplume (561)
• [2004-04-04 13:14]
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Ah! Adrian... This is just the kind of picture I was waiting for from you. It's delicatly sharp, with a nice DOF, I feel as I can almost touch it and I love the fresh and soft colours.

Great work! Just a pity it is not an horizontal shot, I could then use it as my next screen background... :o))

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• Rockyboy (218)
• [2004-04-04 13:16]

This close up is very nice to see... and the DoF is excellent. Nice shot!

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• zto (246)
• [2004-04-04 13:54]

Wonderfull Adrian. I'm just waiting for the right time to come for the wooden anemoe to start bloom. When they do, in a couple of weeks i guess, i'll go back to one of my favorite places as a child to take a picture of it. There is a whole forest of these flowers there "The Anenome forest". I just hope they haven't put up houses any there by now. So thank you for this rush back to my childhood memories. As to your picture. I tis a lovely macro, but i would not expect anything less from you. You have really captured the softness of this flower.

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• Nina (1249)
• [2004-04-04 13:55]

Beautiful Adrian, as sharp as it needs to be, well exposed, good DOF, need I go on? And all that green around the little white flower is gorgeous too.:)

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• Riz (523)
• [2004-04-04 14:19]

Adrian well done you the depth of field is great. the detail in the pollen wow!

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• Derrick (0)
• [2004-04-04 14:48]

What a fantastic shot! Your focus is dead one and you've got an excellent DOF leading to the backdrop! Well shot Adrain.

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• Catcher (370)
• [2004-04-04 16:16]

Very nice macro! The picture is well sharp and as good framing too! i like the colours and the note!

Well done

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• milloup (56)
• [2004-04-04 18:28]

Beautiful capture. I was out hunting anemones the other day in sunshine, but they look better when shot in overcast weather like here, as the definition in the petals shows much more clearly. Anyway, it's so great to see these little white ones start covering the the ground in the woods again ;-)

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• dsidwell (1219)
• [2004-04-04 21:20]

Your choice of depth of field really makes this flower--the whole plant--look 3-D. I really like the effect. As usual, your tones are deep and pleasant. Yeah, find a new title.... (just kidding).

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• adam (132)
• [2004-04-05 2:03]
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Wow, outstanding shot. The DOF is incredible. Did you use any post-processsing to create that effect at all? It looks so real I feel as if I could reach out and grab it from my screen! :)

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• jhonny_blue (132)
• [2004-04-05 6:37]

Wonderful picture Adrian ! The colours are fantastic and DOF is perfect !
Congratulations !

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• Midnight_sun (548)
• [2004-04-08 7:00]

Outstanding macro; this really comes out of the monitor, the composition, with the smaller leaves still quite in focus below it and the blurred background above it helps create this effect i think. Excellent.

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• Lolydodia (34)
• [2004-04-08 8:08]

Just beautiful... :D

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• lemon_logix (1504)
• [2004-04-10 13:56]

Gd DOF..color. Simple and nice.

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• Laurence (0)
• [2004-04-10 14:58]

Magnifique image, d'une netteté suprenante.
Bravo !

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• technogran (5533)
• [2004-04-10 16:57]

Clear white and delicate yellow on a background of variegated greens make a lovely composition. Technically it is perfect as well as the composition. I feel envious that you guys in the U.K. are gettin spring flowers, when ours will not be blooming for many weeks.
GROANS...to the pun!!!

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• hojper (4090)
• [2004-04-12 16:28]

Wow, at first I thought, nice shot, then I read the note and thought, great note, then I looked up your PP message to Adam and thought, fantastic work, and then I returned to the shot and thought, UNBELIEVABLE!
But the pun was what made me laugh. Thanks.

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• ornis (842)
• [2004-04-17 7:06]

Yes, definitely a very delicate image, where DOF is so well managed that it looks like a 3D shot. Having the flower sharp all over, then the leave just sharp at the end leads the eye from one to another without any distraction. Your framing places the side leaves as the arms of a body of which the flower would be the head. Elegant framing. A simple flower, but what a presence!

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• Luko (445)
• [2004-04-17 14:15]
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Lots have been said about the -very good, I agree- post processing that really helped your anemeone jump out of the screen, if ever a flower can "jump"...?!

I prefer praising the outstanding angle, focusing and DOF you chose that put the two critical point into perfect sharpness, the flower by itself but also the tip of the leaf : this doubles the flower presence and 3D sensation.

Is it me or an epidemic bad case of dyslexy? I think it will be aneMoNe for me...

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• flip89 (585)
• [2004-04-17 16:10]

It's heavenly ... the flower, pictured in its delicateness, seems to float on air ...

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• Marcie (756)
• [2004-04-22 3:24]

Amazing photo.

I also read your postprocessing notes, very useful, and intresting.

Thanks for sharing all these.

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• paroy (118)
• [2004-04-24 11:19]

Superbe photo pour ces détails précis, les couleurs magnifiques. Bravo!

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• Neige (0)
• [2004-07-30 11:05]

Great,Great, Great, Great ,Great,Great. The wood anemone is my perfect flower, in simplicity and beauty. Here it is rarely seen, in fresh forest, along watercourses. I had choosen it as a favorite but forgot to add a comment. Bye. Have a nice day.

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• verseau (4)
• [2004-08-27 4:14]

This is an excellent macro shot. Crisp focus on the subject, with a DOF that is exactly needed. The exposure is carefully setup too. The color and light balance are so perfect that my eyes would feel better if a small bug was in the composition just for a distraction. Well done, thank you!

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• Mitra (16)
• [2005-12-18 5:38]

Well done.
Mitra

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• pawelen (288)
• [2006-04-09 15:27]

hi!

that's a perfectly made macro - photo. well done! nothing to add.

regards,pawel

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• [2010-05-15 5:17]
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