In the original, I have the full flower, but it seems to me that the real drama is to crop to just show the stamen.
Panasonic GH2; Lumix G Vario 100-300mm
Longwood Gardens, Kennett Square, PA; August 17, 2012
...Jerry
Water Lily
In the original, I have the full flower, but it seems to me that the real drama is to crop to just show the stamen.
Panasonic GH2; Lumix G Vario 100-300mm
Longwood Gardens, Kennett Square, PA; August 17, 2012
...Jerry
Last edited by Jerry amEnde; 08-31-2012 at 06:26 PM.
Jerry, I love shooting at Longwood Gardens, nice details and your choice of comps works well in my opinion. I might tone down the very few bright yellows if it were mine.
I agree, I'm losing some detail with the hot yellow. Below, I've toned this down and there is more detail. However, it seems like I'm losing some drama / fire in the image. Maybe if I would have reduced the exposure in the original capture ???
Thanks for the suggestions!
...Jerry
Last edited by Jerry amEnde; 09-01-2012 at 03:38 PM.
Certainly did catch the fire and drama in this flower. The photo has a pretty broad range of tones and it is hard at times to capture all of them. If the original exposure had been a bit less then some of the drama would have been lost. The repost has brought more detail in the few spots being mentioned and still looks very good to me.
I like both the original and the slightly toned down image... Hard to know which I like best. I think you selected an excellent composition for the image.
Oh, I might say I tried toning down the yellows even more, but couldn't get much more detail and the yellows looked very washed out.
Thanks ot everyone for their suggestions!
...Jerry
I like the glowing YELLOWs in the ORIG but would suggest that you went a bit wider on the bottomto avoid the yellow V touching the frame edge in the center of the frame along the bottom.
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...Jerry
fwiw, this shot won an "Honor Ribbon" in the Color Projected Images of the Wilmington International Exhiibition of Photography. http://www.wiep-photo.org/Exhibition/Results.aspx
Thanks to all for the suggestions,
...Jerry
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