Quaking Grass

Gallery: FloraPosted July 12, 201162 views7 comments

Had a job cropping this. Leaving the whole bunch in didn't balance very well. Not sure about this. Grasses can be beautiful when viewed closely.Whites blown a bit I,m affraid.
Sigma 50 mm Macro. D200
200ISO 125th @f5.6
4 stacked images in CZM
Cheers
JohnR

Comments

7 comments

Comment posted by Gary Yeoh on July 12, 2011 at 8:33 PM

John:
I like the bright colours here like Christmas lights and the random clustering. I am sure you have a hard time cropping this but overall looks okay. I might perhaps make the one in LLC disappear but other than that its fine. I don't know if you shot raw and if you do, you could perhaps recover the whites and then convert to jpeg for CZM. An engaging image overall.

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Comment posted by Pat Sampson on July 12, 2011 at 9:20 PM

John,

The composition works for me. I might crop out the cut leaf?(I'm sure that's not the correct term) on the right. I guess I wouldn't worry about the whites here. I can't tell that you've lost any detail and would consider them speculars. Interesting lighting, great bg (smiie) and a fascinating subject.

pat

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

Comment posted by Ian Wolfenden on July 13, 2011 at 6:25 AM

An obviously tricky one to crop, John, but i think you've done a pretty good job. I like the all-over effect of the shapes and colours on the black bg.

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

Comment posted by John Robinson on July 13, 2011 at 6:45 AM

Thanks all, for your input. I don't shoot raw -mainly becuse with the programmes I have it seemed to take ages processing. I was coming home from a bird session with several hundred images and finding I was sitting there for two nights ! Even the extra pixels in the D7000 has made a time difference compared to the D200. I could try raw on the smaller number of flower pics etc.
Cheers
JohnR

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Comment posted by Bob&Charly Nelson on July 14, 2011 at 3:18 PM

This is just not one of my favorites that you've shown John. Maybe the clipped branches, I am not sure.
Bob

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Comment posted by Morris McClung on July 15, 2011 at 8:07 PM

Very unique and quite interesting in it's structure and patterns. Very well done.

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Comment posted by Bill Fach on July 16, 2011 at 1:09 PM

John: I don't see an obvious alternative crop and in fact I like this pretty much as is. Well seen and captured. >=))>

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