Trumpets

Gallery: FloraPosted February 8, 201359 views8 comments

Life has sure gotten in the way lately. Sorry about my absence.
going through some old files and saw these. I have a terrible time trying to compose a half way decent shot of these trumpet plants. Let me know of what your thoughts are.
D80, F2.8, 1/5 sec, ISO100, hand held
All comments and critique appreciated.
Bob

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8 comments

Comment posted by Skip Layman on February 8, 2013 at 1:42 PM

I think the multi-colored background adds some interest to this shot. This could have used a bit less exposure as parts of the flowers appear to be blown..

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Comment posted by Gary Yeoh on February 8, 2013 at 6:52 PM

Robert:

I do like the colorful sprinkling of orange and green in the bg. As for the flowers, they do look a little blown. Also the focus seems to be on the forward leaf at the top rather than on the flower base. Did you use autofocus here as the camera can sometimes lock on the wrong spot.

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Comment posted by Bill Fach on February 9, 2013 at 7:34 PM

Bob: I agree with you about the difficulty of shooting these large flowers. We have a bunch of them in our garden (one of my wife's favorites) and I have about zero images of them that I like. I very much like your BG and think it is a fine complement to the blooms. I think I would have shot this in portrait orientation and cropped to 4:5. I think you could actually do that with this capture. On my monitor the exposure on the flowers looks OK. >=))>

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Comment posted by Philip Hodgkins on February 9, 2013 at 8:22 PM

I agree with Bill's comments, but I think pulling the brightness back a bit would help also.

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Comment posted by Albert Darmo on February 10, 2013 at 4:30 PM

Hi Robert

We miss your participation at flora.. i hope you will be helped by the helpful comments show here. especially by Bill and Gary

Albert Darmo

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Comment posted by Mark Seaver on February 10, 2013 at 11:17 PM

The positioning of the trumpets and the few sharp leaves at the top are very nice as are the oof colors in the background. I agree that parts of the trumpet on the right looks blown.

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Comment posted by Morris McClung on February 11, 2013 at 12:15 PM

I like the mottled background to compliment these soft yellow flowers. Very beautiful.

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Comment posted by Larry Lynch on February 18, 2013 at 1:17 PM

Love the colors and detail. The bg is excellent. Beautiful presentation.

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