Time to grow

[SpeedingSphere]

Here's my latest photo that I took today. It has been edited and I will post the original in a little while. Hope you like it.



Please tell me if you see any photoshopping errors I have made. I have an LCD and i'm not sure what shows differently on CRT's. The picture looks fine on my screen. Please feel free to edit if you would like. :-) Thanks guys!

[swmdrayfan]

I like your DOF, but it doesn't look as sharp as it should. My monitor perhaps?
John

[SpeedingSphere]

How's that? I corrected it with an unsharp mask. I forgot to add USM

[Anbesol]

sharpness looks decent, you probably could have stopped it down a bit more to keep some more of the detail in. Honestly, while from a technical standpoint this is a good exposure and a good composition - shots of inanimate objects such as flowers and trees are too easy and are therefor WAY overdone, considering this theres nothing that really makes your shot stand out from the others. My personal suggestion would be this - if you want to take shots of inanimate subjects, get extreme about it. wether it be by animating them some way, or the angle you shoot them, whatever it may be - do something with them to set them apart from the crowd.

Good lighting, good bokeh, good composition! But I would like to see something different with it. Sometimes just even adding something in with it, like dangling a keychain (for example) from the branch would liven it up a bit.

[SpeedingSphere]

I decided to post this one to see if anyone was able to see photoshop errors, blurs or miscorrections.

Here's the original.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...e/_MG_7272.jpg

Since the original with the bee had an out of focus bee, I wanted to remove it. Just wanted to see what you guys thought of the removal, thats all. Not a special photo imo, either.

[Anbesol]

ah yeah! you did pretty damned good editing that out then! Yeah, flying insects make hard subjects!

[SpeedingSphere]

Ok great! Thanks! The only CRT I have is an old one that does 43Hz Interlaced @ 1280x1024, anything lower than that = fuzzy, and even that is fuzzy.

I need to get a better CRT, but the shopping list is so big for me currently, lol