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Contest Results: Colors of Nature

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Ended 11/03/10 4:15 AM GMT
Winner: Jay_Underwood (See the full results)


1st place
Forest of October by Jay_Underwood

tanimara: Congratulations Jay - awesome photo!

wheedance: The light and golden tone are lovely! Congrats!

soccerjenn96: Beautiful! I live in Rochester, NY so am familiar with the area you took this.

icedancer: What a gorgeous fall image and really like the way the sun is beaming through the branches. Oh must be nice to be that temperature, it's cold up here in Northern Ontario

Oh is Jay short for Jamie, that's our son's name

Jay_Underwood received a 2 month membership in the Caedes Cadre.


3rd place
Perch Upon a Rainbow by aboogie

BosNana: I love all the color and the butterfly is so clear, it stands right out! Very nice!

LynEve: Congratulations on your well deserved placement in the Colours of Nature contest :)

SusanVenter: So beautiful....the bright colors and the delicate butterfly...great work!


4th place
Changing Colors of Autumn by espinosa6pack

LynEve: Congratulations on your placement in the Colours of Nature contest :)

purmusic: Very nicely composed image.


Going to be bold here, you ready?

I am going to guess that you were dealing with a somewhat problematic sky here. As in, possibly over-exposed.

If so, some creative food for thought for you on the note of exposure:

"Exposure - Film and light record image"

Or:

;o)


/\ Kidding a bit in the above.

Mind you, there are a myriad of ways and image editing tutorials on the 'how to stuff'.


You've balanced out the blues in the sky with their counterpart; reflections on the water ... well. (Compositionally speaking, that is.)

What has seemed to happen is that by uppingthe colour saturation ... some details are lost.

So, my counsel/advice (friendly) here, would be to dial that back some.


However, and with that said?

Artisitic licence taken? Of course, I can respect that.

:o)


5th place
Burnished Bark by Silvanus

icedancer: That is so cool and really like the colours

avedeloff: Nature does it's own abstract art for us. A great shot.

rforres: I saw this in the voting booth and had to find out what it was. It looks almost metallic and yet also natural at the same time. Very cool effect! :)