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Post by Stevewebb on Sept 28, 2011 13:56:51 GMT
 Taken today just messing around as I haven't picked the camera up for a few days. 12 stacked images. ;D |
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Post by jiro on Sept 28, 2011 14:00:40 GMT
First time that I have seen this kind of flower, Steve. What is it? A little tight on the crop for me but it looks good since you set the background to black. Made me keep my attention only on the flower and the reflection itself. A small suggestion would be for you to fade the reflection downward to give it more illusion of depth rather than a complete reflection as shown. I haven't touched my camera, too for about 5 days now. Too many things went with my personal life lately.  |
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Post by Stevewebb on Sept 28, 2011 14:53:25 GMT
Thanks for the comments Jiro
You are right about the gradient on the reflection, I was rushing towards the end because I had spent far longer than I had planned already.
The flower is a Fuschia. It has flowers that hand down so you never really get to see the middle of them. This one just appealed to me.
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Post by katynoelle on Sept 29, 2011 1:49:45 GMT
Fascinating, Steve! The petals look like fabric. At first I was going to ask if you were too heavy handed with pp - aren't they more delicate? but, then, I thought that, no, they're so solidly vibrant. It's really beautiful! I wish.... I wish that this were either a closeup and I could see more detail on the flower - getting rid of the perspex (maybe, just a larger size photo would satisfy me in that way, though) or that there was more space and composition to make the photo really about a flower being reflected. Does that make sense? Also, did you consider (maybe you did but I'm just thinking it through, 'out loud', at the moment) - did you consider that the reflection is still part of the composition? I'm very tired at the moment and my words may fail me, here, but...this is a pretty straight on shot. Did you consider how the lines from the reflection led into the actual flower? did you explore different angles to give a flow to the whole 2D image that's in the frame? Just thoughts - they're helpful for me, anyway.  |
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Post by katynoelle on Sept 29, 2011 1:50:37 GMT
Hey, also, Steve! Is it my imagination or did you do a really good job handling some super saturated colors?!=]
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Post by Stevewebb on Oct 1, 2011 7:39:37 GMT
 Back to the Fuschia 2 |
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Post by katynoelle on Oct 1, 2011 11:01:24 GMT
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