Purple rain

Gallery: FloraPosted March 16, 201657 views4 comments

After some recent rainfall these purple flowers were beautiful and the drops added some extra character. I realize the long green leaf in the FG might be a distraction, but I had some difficulty getting the right comp and thought I just leave it. Comments and critique will be appreciated.

Imaged cropped, no other post processing done.

Techs:
Fujifilm X-T1 with XF18-135mm lens at 116mm
1/110s, F5.6, ISO200

Comments

4 comments

Comment posted by Giuseppe Guadagno on March 16, 2016 at 3:03 PM

Intriguing blu and yellow flowers in a good composition. The only problem for me is a BG too intrusive. If it were mine I would try: cropping as much as possible on the left for getting read of most of the grass blade; cropping in the right for balancing the composition; lowering color saturation and light in the BG. That's only my very personal opinion.

Registered on February 3, 2007, 827 Posts, 5052 Comments

Comment posted by Philip Hodgkins on March 16, 2016 at 10:25 PM

Willem, Gigi has given some good post processing advice. I might add, doing some judicious pruning ahead of time would have simplified things a good bit. cool

Registered on July 24, 2006, 2741 Posts, 12349 Comments

Comment posted by Nathan Buck on March 18, 2016 at 11:16 AM

The color of the flowers is really nice Willem, and the water droplets are interesting. I think the blade in the front is a bit distracting, as is the brownish-red just left of center.

Nathan

Registered on November 1, 2003, 1101 Posts, 13589 Comments

Comment posted by Bill Fach on March 20, 2016 at 5:58 PM

Willem: I think you did reasonably well with a very busy environment. I am guilty of doing some "gardening" when in the field if its my flowers or wildflowers and carry a small pruning scissors with me for such a time as this. Really nice capture of the main subjects. >=))>

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