On Tue, 28 Jun 2005, Mark Roberts wrote:
While out taking shots for the Nature Guides job a few days ago, I needed to get some photos of fern spores. A couple of the shots ended up looking so nice that they stand on their own from an artistic standpoint. At least I think so. Other opinions welcome :) Here's one: http://www.robertstech.com/temp/fern.jpg ist-D, F100/2.8 macro
Nice composition and the spores make a difference, but I think the background is too similar chromatically to the subject. While in this case there is a Braswellian solution (or perhaps stop-down and flash), I have the same problem in my garden: this is a good year for my rose bushes in the middle of the lawn, but the pictures look awful with the Leyland cypress hedge behind them. We will need to sell, and my only memories of them will be in the fading grey cells :-(
Kostas
