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Doyle D. Chastain
{K:101119} 7/31/2006
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Thanks Maurizio . . . I appreciate your support my friend!
Regards,
Doyle I <~~~~~
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Doyle D. Chastain
{K:101119} 7/31/2006
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Thanks Sheila! My whole idea was to get away from the more common and easily accesible greens . . . and It did make a nice BG for me after all!
Regards,
Doyle I <~~~~~
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Doyle D. Chastain
{K:101119} 7/31/2006
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Thanks Robin! I like your style! ;)
Regards,
Doyle I <~~~~~
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Maurizio Ubaldini
{K:1350} 7/31/2006
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Hi Doyle,another superb floral shot, nice colors and nice comp...congrats.
Ciao
Maurizio
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Sheila Carson
{K:5924} 7/31/2006
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Very nice. I love the contrast of the red behind the flower. Good job!
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Robin W
{K:16308} 7/31/2006
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Jasmine and John make a lovely couple and you have captured them beautifully Doyle. Great composition and, as Ray pointed out, a gorgeous bokeh. Love a beautiful bokeh!!!
Thanks for the comment, always appreciated!
Take care...Robin
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Doyle D. Chastain
{K:101119} 7/31/2006
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We'll be back up and running in a day or two Michele . . . I'm trying to spend a moment to thank the kind people who have commented (like yourself) and will need at least a day of rest!! The wife had me running ALL weekend and I have WAY too many pictures to show for it!!
:)
Regards,
Doyle I <~~~~~
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Michele Carlsen
{K:146013} 7/31/2006
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Hey Doyle ! Nice to hear from you again... I was missing both You and Marlyce here all on my own this week-end with 'no guru's to guide me...
Michele~
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Doyle D. Chastain
{K:101119} 7/31/2006
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Thank you Asim, my friend!
Regards,
Doyle I <~~~~~
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Doyle D. Chastain
{K:101119} 7/31/2006
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Thanks Michele! John never whispered a word! :)
Regards,
Doyle I <~~~~~
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Doyle D. Chastain
{K:101119} 7/31/2006
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Thanks so much Mary, my Poet friend . . . I have some GREAT horse pics coming soon for you!
Regards,
Doyle I <~~~~~
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Doyle D. Chastain
{K:101119} 7/31/2006
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Thanks Hanggan!! Very appreciated comment!
Regards,
Doyle I <~~~~~
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Doyle D. Chastain
{K:101119} 7/31/2006
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Thanks Jessie . . . (I haven't forgotten you but found myself VERY busy this weekend . . . patience, ok?)
Regards,
Doyle I <~~~~~
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Doyle D. Chastain
{K:101119} 7/31/2006
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Awesome Ray! For those who may not be familiar with Ray's Excellent critique terminology . . . Let me explain Bokeh:
Bokeh describes the rendition of out-of-focus points of light.
Bokeh is different from sharpness. Sharpness is what happens at the point of best focus. Bokeh is what happens away from the point of best focus.
Bokeh describes the appearance or "feel" of out-of-focus backgrounds and foregrounds.
Unfortunately the good bokeh doesn't happen automatically in lens design. Perfect lenses render out-of-focus points of light as circles with sharp edges. Ideal bokeh would render each of these points as blurs, not hard-edged circles. Mathematicians would say the intensity distribution of the blur circles are rectangular in perfect lenses, and good bokeh would prefer a Gaussian distribution. This is one area in which physics doesn't mirror what we want artistically.
Differing amounts of spherical aberration alter how lenses render out-of-focus points of light, and thus their bokeh. The word "bokeh" comes from the Japanese word "boke" (pronounced bo-keh) which literally means fuzziness or dizziness.
A technically perfect lens has no spherical aberration. Therefore a perfect lens focuses all points of light as cones of light behind the lens. The image is in focus if the film is exactly where the cone reaches its finest point. The better the lens, the tinier this point gets.
Thanks so much Ray!
Regards,
Doyle I <~~~~~
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Doyle D. Chastain
{K:101119} 7/31/2006
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Thanks as always for your support ng!
Regards,
Doyle I <~~~~~
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Doyle D. Chastain
{K:101119} 7/31/2006
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Thanks Fatemeh! I look again and see you're right . . . it looks as though it's leaping from the frame!
:)
Regards,
Doyle I <~~~~~
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Doyle D. Chastain
{K:101119} 7/31/2006
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Thanks so much Avi!
Regards,
Doyle I <~~~~~
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Doyle D. Chastain
{K:101119} 7/31/2006
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Thanks Ken . . . the angle of the shot was the key here . . . I wanted a rose BG . . . and had enough Jasmine to do it!
Regards,
Doyle I <~~~~~
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Doyle D. Chastain
{K:101119} 7/31/2006
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Thanks Phillip . . . I was loucky that so much Jasmine was in bloom that I could Easily find one with the rose as a bacground!
Regards,
Doyle I <~~~~~
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Doyle D. Chastain
{K:101119} 7/31/2006
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Thanks Rashed!
Regards,
Doyle I <~~~~~
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Doyle D. Chastain
{K:101119} 7/31/2006
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Thank You Larry.
Regards,
Doyle I <~~~~~
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Doyle D. Chastain
{K:101119} 7/31/2006
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Thanks Davide . . . I appreciate the comments.
Regards,
Doyle I <~~~~~
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Asim Roy
{K:10051} 7/30/2006
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Very nice composition, love, asim
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Michele Carlsen
{K:146013} 7/30/2006
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Very Nice Doyle ...very soft and looks like there was 'No idea' You + John were in
ca-hoots for this Jasmine exposure.
Michele~
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Mary Slade
{K:40338} 7/29/2006
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Great one Doyle. The lighting and colours for this close up wonderful. Delicate but strong.
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Hanggan Situmorang
{K:37833} 7/29/2006
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I really like how the light enlighting the little part of the flower, Doyle. Great DOF and composition. Well done!
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jessie voigts
{K:6772} 7/29/2006
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gorgeous!!!! esp the red.
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stingRay pt.4 .
{K:250401} 7/29/2006
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A gorgeous hot bokeh from 'John' for this delicate blooming jasmine. I love the soft focus which enriches the delicacy of the subject my dear Doyle. Patience is a virtue in all forms of photography and it can be amazing the differences to be found within the space of an hour or two with one floral shot. Well done to you my friend as you venture boldly into another project. All the best.....Ray
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Engy Farahat
{K:11591} 7/29/2006
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Beautiful composition Doyle. lovely & delicate Jasmine.
great DOF. and wonderful soft colors.
well done
ng..
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Fatemeh Rahimi
{K:13523} 7/29/2006
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it seems that the flower is trying to get out of the photo! great Dof!
bravo Doyle!
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Avi
{K:70138} 7/29/2006
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ABSOLUTE BEAUTY !!!.. The red smearing at the background works perfect for the soft white focus in the front !!
GREAT JOB, Doyle !
all the very best,
Avi
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Kenneth C. Long, Sr.
{K:4245} 7/29/2006
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Nice composition, like the DOF the red brings out the white flower, I like the angle of the shot, well done my friend.
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Phillip Minnis
{K:13131} 7/28/2006
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Lovely, Doyle! So soft and delicate. I love the red background!
Cheers
Phil
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Rashed Abdulla
{K:163889} 7/28/2006
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My friend , this is a wonderful flower close up and very pleasant , the exposure here is wonderful and so the details and the colors, all of the best my friend..
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Larry Fosse
{K:66493} 7/28/2006
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Hey Doyle...Superb floral with wonderful color & soft focus
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Davide Contestabile
{K:4091} 7/28/2006
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very good macro
congrats
davide
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