Kaushik Balakumar
04-15-2009, 02:45 PM
Made this image while waiting for a bus. These beautiful flowers on the road side drew my attention.
The star pattern formed by the inner parts of the flower interested me while I was looking for compositions through the view finder. I first wanted the stigma to be in focus & the rest totally OOF. However, while experimenting I also realized that giving some sort of shape to the BG star enhanced the comp (to my tastes). With couple of tries (varying the aperture), I came up with this image which I found to be interesting DOF - as in - showing the star form but not too much detail so as to distract from the main stigma.
Does this work for you...?
http://www.pbase.com/bkaushik/image/111357888/original.jpg
And any thoughts, opinion about the tiny petals edges towards the left of the frame...
Does it distract? I opted not to clone it thinking that it provides some kind of balance to the comp.
Techs:
Nikon D300, Nikkor 105mm VR micro, hand-held
f/6.3, 1/640, ISO200
Critiques/views welcome...
The star pattern formed by the inner parts of the flower interested me while I was looking for compositions through the view finder. I first wanted the stigma to be in focus & the rest totally OOF. However, while experimenting I also realized that giving some sort of shape to the BG star enhanced the comp (to my tastes). With couple of tries (varying the aperture), I came up with this image which I found to be interesting DOF - as in - showing the star form but not too much detail so as to distract from the main stigma.
Does this work for you...?
http://www.pbase.com/bkaushik/image/111357888/original.jpg
And any thoughts, opinion about the tiny petals edges towards the left of the frame...
Does it distract? I opted not to clone it thinking that it provides some kind of balance to the comp.
Techs:
Nikon D300, Nikkor 105mm VR micro, hand-held
f/6.3, 1/640, ISO200
Critiques/views welcome...