Spring at last!

[Stefan Jonsson]

Hepatica



Canon EOS 5D, EF 200/2,8 L @f/3,5, 25mm ext tube, 1/350sec, ISO 400

[Kaushik Balakumar]

Beautiful image. Love the soft feel in this. Nice use of OOF elements in the frame. Have you thought of cropping further so as to keep just the 2 flowers (eliminating the 3rd towards right-bottom) in to a vertical composition...?

[Kaushik Balakumar]

I meant a crop like this one...



Just a matter of personal taste :)

[Stefan Jonsson]

Yes! That´s an idea, but I i thought it would be a little bit too tight.
And I´m in love with the square right now :-)

[Julie Kenward]

I had the same crop idea as Kaushik but also brought up the high tones using a levels adjustment - just giving it a little more light right at the top of the main flower.

Lovely image either way...the overall feel of the piece really makes you think of spring breaking through!

[Stefan Jonsson]

I had the same crop idea as Kaushik but also brought up the high tones using a levels adjustment - just giving it a little more light right at the top of the main flower.

Lovely image either way...the overall feel of the piece really makes you think of spring breaking through!

Thank´s Kaushik and Julie, I´ll go back to the picture and work... :D

[Mike Moats]

Hey Stefan, I have to agree with the cropped version, not that the original is not great, just think less is better here. Very cool image.

[Stefan Jonsson]

Ok, ok, ok :)
Made the format standing, popped up the background and adjusted away some magenta.

[Gus Cobos]

Hi Stefan,
Your final repost is beautiful, I love the color rendition and the compositional balance...well done...:cool:

[Ed Vatza]

The crops are fine and the image (cropped) looks great. But sometimes you have to stand by your original vision. As presented, I think the square composition looks great as well.

[Stefan Jonsson]

Thank you Ed, know what you mean, personally I like the first version best, but you know new to the forum and so on...