Frosted Leaf #1

Gallery: FloraPosted December 3, 2010165 views8 comments

Cannon PowerShot S5IS
12/3/2010 7:35:21 AM
1/8
f/5.6
ISO 100
Focal length 11.8 mm
Handheld
My backyard in Northeast Florida
Leaf - PSE8 levels, contrast, sharpening
Background - I didn't want to touch the leaf, so I removed the grass background in PSE8 and replaced it with solid color fill layer

Note to Pat: In case you haven't seen my question in NPN Discussion, I asked where this should go there. You and Bill should feel completely free to move it to Photo Art if you think that's where it should be, and I will post any further in this series here or there, depending on what you do. None of the leaves will be manipulated other than the postprocessing listed for this leaf above, but the backgrounds will be replaced as above (well, depending on what people say in response to my question below). :)

Question: Is a black background good for fall leaf images, or is it common and boring? I tried dark green but didn't like it as much.
Feedback on that and anything else would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Comments

8 comments

Comment posted by Bill Fach on December 3, 2010 at 9:29 PM

Barbara: This is excellent and I think this is fine for this gallery. I like the light on the leaf and the black BG works very nicely. One of your best IMO.

>=))>

Registered on November 1, 2003, 1805 Posts, 26981 Comments

Comment posted by Buck Ward on December 3, 2010 at 9:45 PM

Hi Barbara
You got that frosty leaf here in sunny Florida? Brrrr. It's cold here is swfl, but we don't expect frost.
I like your rendition. That black background I'm sure is better than the grass you found the leaf on. You did a fine job separating the leaf. I'm thinking maybe some sort of dark leafy-ish mottled background might work better that black. You can photograph something and make it way out of focus for use as a background for cases like this.

Registered on December 8, 2003, 96 Posts, 1917 Comments

Comment posted by David W. Kelly on December 4, 2010 at 10:31 AM

This is wonderful Barbara. Love the leaf against the black BG.

Registered on October 7, 2005, 883 Posts, 6590 Comments

Comment posted by Pat Sampson on December 4, 2010 at 12:57 PM

I like the image Barbara. Nice lines, shapes, values, colors and textures. (smile) No suggestions on this one.

Please see me comment on gallery classification in the NPN Discussion forum on your thread.

pat

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

Comment posted by Ian Wolfenden on December 5, 2010 at 6:36 AM

Very nice image, Barbara - the frosted leaf standing out beautifully against the black bg. Good detail too in the leaves.

Registered on May 18, 2007, 1108 Posts, 7647 Comments

Comment posted by Gary Yeoh on December 5, 2010 at 11:00 PM

Barbara:
A very beautiful image nicely set off by the black bg. Well done.