Rosy Ghost

[Ken Childs]

Canon 100mm f/2.8 Macro w/20mm tube attached
Av mode
1/40"
F3.2
ISO 200
Exposure comp + 5/3
Tripod
LR & CS3
Camera hooked up to a laptop using EOS utility.

Another shot of the same yellow Knockout rose.

Indoors with indirect window light. Cropped, some cloning clean up, desaturated and lightened the darker yellow areas.

[Steve Maxson]

Hi Ken. This one may be a little too abstract for my tastes - but take that with a grain of salt as abstracts are pretty far from my area of expertise. :t3 It will be interesting to see what others chime in with. I think I would like this more if there was something a little sharper for my eye to grab onto. The thin black border is very effective at setting this off from the light background.

[Anita Bower]

Agree with Steve. Beautiful yellows. Black border works well. Doesn't quite work for me. Maybe if the lines were a bit more diagonal. and that wide white stripe center top were gone.

[Norm Dulak]

Sorry Ken. But this is too abstract for me. It might be terrific to those in the know, but I am not able to properly evaluate such things. So I'm aftaid I will have to take a pass on this one. :w3

Still, I like new approaches and innovation. :S3:

[Roman Kurywczak]

Oh boy......sorry Ken......not for me either! Looking at the comp.......I wonder if it is the lightness overall? I think the comp is pretty good......so might be worth exploring the bit darker look.

[OvidiuCavasdan]

I like the idea, but I feel it needs something...I don't know, maybe some in focus area/line, maybe some more color...more contrast. Anyway it is interesting experimenting this kind of images.

[Mitch Haimov]

Although I like the concept, I'm afraid I'm with the crowd on this one, Ken. I'm Not sure I'd say "too abstract"--to me the problem is that it lacks a center of interest to hold my eye, compounded by the white area top center which I find myself looking at more than anything else. I like the composition and think it would have worked well if the area just above right center were sharp. I find that using either live view or a bright flashlight is a great help to manual focusing with these macro lens + extension tube images. Keep experimenting!

[Ken Childs]

No worries....you win some and you lose some. :bg3:

I kept it light and purposely didn't go for anything sharp because it's a ghost and it wouldn't feel right for ghost to look nice and sharp. I may give another shot at pp'ing before I trash it.