Thanks guys. I see what you mean, I hadn't looked at it that way, and it's good to know. Do you think this picture would lend itself to one flower being colored, like this?
http://picasaweb.google.com/rg2pdml/PESO/photo?authkey=W1C-i05p28o#5108675641377599890 Or should I just go back and take a better picture? :o) Thanks for taking the time to comment! rg2 On 9/10/07, Bruce Dayton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Rebekah, > > I like the color better. This is a real difficult shot to execute > because of the DOF issue. You will not be able to get all of the > flowers in focus, so picking the focus point is crucial. As > presented, the focus point doesn't jump out at me - it looks more > towards the middle. This causes my eyes to jump back and forth to > settle on the middle and wonder why there are so many other roses in > the composition. Hopefully you see what I am getting at. Perhaps > focus on the front flowers with the OOF slowly receding would be > better - or fewer flowers - or much increased DOF, meaning tripod and > stopped way down. Right now it just feels to busy without my eye > comfortably settling on a subject. > > -- > Bruce > > > Monday, September 10, 2007, 12:21:41 PM, you wrote: > > R> So last week I was playing with my camera, a flashlight and some > R> flowers. This picture's my favorite, but I'm undecided (as usual) if > R> I like it in color or B&W. I cropped it down a little bit too. All > R> comments and advice welcome ? > > R> http://picasaweb.google.com/rg2pdml/PESO?authkey=W1C-i05p28o > > > R> rg2 > > R> -- > R> "the subject of a photograph is far less important than its composition" > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- "the subject of a photograph is far less important than its composition" -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
