Golden Petals by theKuro
theKuro

Golden Petals

by theKuro in Macro

Same as the photo before, this one is quite noisy aswell... SORRY! :(
I've used my HFCF here aswell, to get the "golden" color on the petals.
Shot in: 1/400s f/3.2.
Border & text in Photoshop.

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  • theKuro

    theKuro

    Thanks, I'll take note of the tips :)

    Jul 16th, 2007 Reply
  • leiko

    leiko

    what's interesting about this photo is that due to the bright coloring it looks like a white flower that was spray painted over. the problem with this is that the flower ends up lacking the depth and contrast it normally should have, and the picture ends up feeling a bit flat. also, because so much of the photo is bright, the viewer doesn't know where to focus their attention. you want to bring their eyes to a portion of the total canvas-- and that part of the canvas shouldn't be more than 50% of the total page. right now, i don't know where to look.

    the colors are pretty though.

    Jul 9th, 2007 Reply Feel free to contact me
  • Martin

    Martin

    I have to be honest, i've never really had much intrest for closeup pictures on flowers mainly due to the fact that they are all pretty much the same, what i would like to see is more unusual angles and perhaps have the background somehow more noticable (less blur).

    First thing that striked me as a negative part would be the brightness, i would love to see more constrasts. More shadows vs brightness. The flower overall is a very nice looking flower, i especially like the middle area, really digging the colors there. However, it's rather hard to see the sharpness on the rest of the flower due to the brightness (again).

    It is however very good that you stood in a angle of which had flowers behind the "main one" because that's always nice in the way it creates depth to the picture.

    I don't know if this was so much of help but to draw a conclusion of what i like and dislike..
    I dislike the brightness, it removes the crisp feeling too much, i'm not so into the total blurred background either, it would be nice with some connection with the flower. The angle, try doing some different angles and try to shy away from the usual "bird view" over it. What i do like is the flower general, it has great colors and when the crisp feeling shows, like in the middle, it's really good.

    Dont get me wrong, its a good photo, i could see myself having it on the wall back home but there's always ways to improve stuff.

    have a nice day

    Jul 8th, 2007 Reply Shadowness staff
  • acire

    acire

    This shot seems to be a little bit... too bright. Too washed out on the left upper corner of the main flower.
    Too much seems out of focus.

    Jun 29th, 2007 Reply