Soft Yellow

Gallery: FloraPosted October 14, 2010165 views11 comments

Canon PowerShot S5IS
1/100
f/3.5
ISO 80

University of Florida campus, Gainesville, Florida

Soft yellow -- very, very, very soft. :( I am so disappointed, because I thought this was gorgeous otherwise. Is there a place for a soft image like this one? All feedback will be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

Comments

11 comments

Comment posted by Ramamohan Pai on October 14, 2010 at 11:19 PM

I don't know what you are disappointed about, Barbara

. It looks great to my eyes with a killer background.

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Comment posted by Carol Hyman on October 14, 2010 at 11:31 PM

Barbara, I think this is one of the best images you have posted to date. Good diagonal line in the stem. Nice DOF. Interesting light.

Carol

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Comment posted by Gary Yeoh on October 15, 2010 at 12:15 AM

Barbara:
You should be proud of this image, probably your best flora so far. Glad to see you are improving by leaps and bounds.

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Comment posted by Pat Sampson on October 15, 2010 at 8:27 AM

This is beautiful as posted Barbara. The subject/ground separation is excellent and the bg itself is very appealing. I wouldn't worry about the softness in it unless you want it to be sharper and then you'll need to figure out how to do that. A lot of the satisfaction, at least for me, in photography is the challenge and fun of figuring out how I want something to work and then trying to get the image to reflect that. I think this is why most of us end up spending as much as we do on gear and also so much time learning processing techniques.

Do you like the overlapping parts of the flower in this? If you do great, If not how would they be arranged and placed for you ideally?

Pat

Registered on May 19, 2007, 953 Posts, 15989 Comments

Comment posted by Barbara Graham on October 15, 2010 at 8:52 AM

Thank you, everyone.

Pat, I am okay with the overlapping parts of the flower because I think it needs to be like that for the image to be as balanced as it is. In this image there's no other place for the second flower, and without it where it is I don't think the single flower would balance the buds below those two flowers. I really like the lines and balance of this as is.

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Comment posted by Krunal Janani on October 15, 2010 at 10:19 AM

This is a real good image Barbara don't know y ur disappointed, the bg is gorgeous.

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Comment posted by Daniel & Loana on October 15, 2010 at 4:03 PM

I like this very much. I think the BG is superb!

Go on like this!

D&L

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Comment posted by Bill Fach on October 15, 2010 at 9:29 PM

Barbara: I'm traveling and have limited access to the gallery but I did want to comment that IMO this is clearly your best Flora post. Really good comp and BG separation and the BG itself is excellent. 2 thumbs up! >=))>

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Comment posted by Mike Reid on October 15, 2010 at 10:32 PM

Really love the background on this...nice work

Registered on February 28, 2009, 37 Posts, 122 Comments

Comment posted by May Haga on October 16, 2010 at 8:52 AM

Excellent preentation Barbara. Love the background.
May

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Comment posted by Barbara Graham on October 17, 2010 at 8:11 AM

Thank you all again, and thanks so much, Bill, for taking the time to post your comment while traveling.

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