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Cold Dew
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Cold Dew

by Zaccaria Exhenry

Gallery: FloraPosted February 5, 201137 views4 comments
A cold morning left beautiful droplets of dew on this grape leaf.
Canon EOS 550d, 18-55mm
Slight contrast increase in Aperture.
Thanks for viewing and i hope you have time to leave some constructive criticism
Zaccaria

Comments

4 comments
Comment posted by Pat Sampson on February 5, 2011 at 9:11 AM
Zaccaria,

I like your composition in this very much. I think you need more dof though to really show off the droplets. I suspect that it wouldn't really be possible without creating a stacked image. Also the brightest whites her look over exposed to me. This strikes me as being a tough image to shoot because of the dof issues and dynamic range. It might also be worthwhile trying this with HDR processing techniques to control the dynamic range.

pat
Registered on May 19, 2007, 953 Posts, 15989 Comments
Comment posted by Bob&Charly Nelson on February 5, 2011 at 10:35 AM
I like what you are doing with this Zaccaria, I think I would either increase or decrease the DOF used here. The OOF drops are somewhat a distraction to my untrained eye. Well seen though, and I sure think in the right direction.
Bob :wavey:
Registered on October 27, 2005, 289 Posts, 4202 Comments
Comment posted by Derek Yow on February 5, 2011 at 12:45 PM
I kind of agree with the previous comments. This looks like a shot with great potential, with a few tweaks, The drops are wonderful but I'm trying to figure out what your point-of-focus is? It seems to me like the sharpest spot in this photo is about midway up on the right-hand side, but my eye really likes that larger drop on the left. My main suggestions would be to maybe shoot this from a little higher point of view, and with a little more depth of field.
Registered on May 18, 2010, 26 Posts, 655 Comments
Comment posted by Bill Fach on February 5, 2011 at 1:03 PM
Zaccaria: Shooting drops can be tricky. I do think a bit more DOF and sharpening would improve this and the next time you have a similar opportunity consider using a polarizer. You might be amazed at how much more definition and saturation you can get. >=))>
Registered on November 1, 2003, 1805 Posts, 26981 Comments