Clematis (in the studio)

Gallery: FloraPosted June 17, 201558 views3 comments

Taken from the garden this morning. Shot in studio with two studio flash lights (diffused). The background is a piece of blue art paper curved againt the wall.

Canon 5DM2, 100mmL macro. f/16, 1/125s, ISO100. processed in Photoshop CC2015.

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Comment posted by Allen Brooks on June 17, 2015 at 5:19 PM

While blue is my favorite color, I don't find the background working for me here. In looking through your gallery, I like the backgrounds you used in your previous studio shots much better.

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Comment posted by Ramamohan Pai on June 17, 2015 at 8:04 PM

Rob - Excellent portrait of the Clematis - I like the center making a slight angle to the horizontal and the great texture the narrow aperture and lighting has brought out nicely.

The background however gives an impression of pixellation - without reading what you used for the background, it is confusing.

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Comment posted by Philip Hodgkins on June 19, 2015 at 9:08 PM

Rob, the Clematis is great, with excellent detail and texture. The blue BG not so much. The pixelization is obvious. I hope you don't mind my working with your image, but I thought it might be instructive. What I did was select and apply a field blur of about 15% to the blue.

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