This Gerbera bud was a half day away from being a full bloom when I snapped its portrait. I processed it in Adobe's Camera Raw and added an antique color action at the end.
Canon 40D, EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro
f/7.1 @ 1/250th
AWB, Eval Meter, Late day sun
06-13-2008, 09:42 PM
Alfred Forns
Very fitting for the half blossom Juli !!! Love the antique color treatment Does set the mood !!!!
06-14-2008, 04:10 AM
Harold Davis
awesome, julie!! love the feel. great job with the treatment!
06-14-2008, 07:20 AM
Michael Pancier
i'm always partial to white on black. well done. The background bud looks a tad oof. perhaps shooting at higher f-stop.
06-14-2008, 08:36 AM
Julie Kenward
Michael, you're right...a higher f/stop would have given me a full DOF on the flower but that wasn't what I was going for. I wanted to draw your attention to the front petals to highlight the part of the flower that still was yet to open. I know it's purely a matter of taste, but I shot a few with a higher DOF and this was the one that fit what I was trying to convey.
Make sense?
06-14-2008, 01:32 PM
Fabs Forns
Lovely tints, Julie, I feel it needs a bit more room in the left.
06-14-2008, 09:40 PM
Julie Kenward
Yes, Fabs, now that you mention it...I see that, too! Just trying to keep the thing from being dead center - I'll give it a little tweak on my next go-round.
06-15-2008, 08:56 AM
Gus Cobos
Nicely done Julie,
Very delicate. Great texture and color rendition...:cool: