White and Purple Dahlia

[Anita Bower]

Taken outdoors with white foam background. 50mm lens, f8, ISO 250, 1/100.

[Michael Gerald-Yamasaki]

Anita,

Greetings. Beautiful, could see it from the thumbnail. A little extra room all around would work for me. I particularly like the crisp color & lines. Thanks for posting.

Cheers,

-Michael-

[Dennis Bishop]

I'm fine with the tight crop, and I think the white background -- especially with the whites in the dahlia -- was a great idea. Very nicely done.

[Diane Miller]

Wonderful!! Beautiful sharpness and tonal detail!

I could see a version with more room sides and top, but it's such a gorgeous image that that's a small thing.

I just pulled it into PS for a closer look and noticed that you do have an embedded profile, but it is AdobeRGB. The many people out there who don't have color-managed browsers will be seeing it with dulled-down colors. (The browser will "assign" sRGB to it.) Be sure to convert to sRGB before posting on any web location. That's the main thing -- if that is done, having an embedded profile is less important but still a good idea.

[Nancy Bell]

Simply beautiful, Anita! I love the look of a single flower/insect/etc. with a pure white bkgd. This is a perfect blossom, creating its own composition with the petals, and very lovely with rich pinks and glowing golds. I just made a note to pick up some white foam core.

[Anita Bower]

Wonderful!! Beautiful sharpness and tonal detail!

I could see a version with more room sides and top, but it's such a gorgeous image that that's a small thing.

I just pulled it into PS for a closer look and noticed that you do have an embedded profile, but it is AdobeRGB. The many people out there who don't have color-managed browsers will be seeing it with dulled-down colors. (The browser will "assign" sRGB to it.) Be sure to convert to sRGB before posting on any web location. That's the main thing -- if that is done, having an embedded profile is less important but still a good idea.

Thanks for the reminder, Diane. I have been changing my color profile to sRGB, but forgot on this one.

[Anita Bower]

Thanks to all for comments. I wondered about the tight crop--unsure of it myself.

[Christopher Miller]

Love the colors and high-key BG, Anita! Personally I would go with a little more room around the flower.

[Anita Bower]

I added a bit of space around top and sides, and cropped from bottom to make it square. What do you think? I also changed the color profile to sRGB.

[Christopher Miller]

Definitely like the second crop more, Anita. Nice work!

[Dennis Bishop]

I also prefer the additional room.

[Diane Miller]

Yes! Square is perfect here!

If anyone is seeing this version brighter / more saturated than the previous one, yor browser is not color-managed. That's only a problem in the occasional cases where an image is not in sRGB. For a color-managed browser, if the image is Adobe RGB AND tagged (as is the first one above) the colors will show properly. In other words, both images will look the same, and be displayed correctly.

[Anita Bower]

Oh good. I like the repost better also. As always, your input helped!

[Jackie Schuknecht]

Another vote for the repost Anita! Electric colours and very nice comp. Colours look slightly more intense on the repost.

[Diane Miller]

Jackie, you're describing what I talked about in pane 12 above -- but I probably wasn't very clear about it.

[Nancy Bell]

I also vote for the repost with more room.