Bruce, I like the shot as it is. I do not think that tweaking it PP will make it significantly better. To me - the flower begs for high key. I Imagined it - colors less dark, white background, petals' edges fading...
Or background could be light green - if you can re-shoot it you can try using a semi-transparent cloth or paper as a screen, so it would be white with light green cast. That's more or less what I meant. Thanks for a nice photo, --Sasha On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 6:58 AM, Bruce Walker<[email protected]> wrote: > Sasha Sobol wrote: >> >> I really like how the flower "melts". >> After some thoughts: I would prefer not so active green background. >> >> --Sasha > > Just curious, Sasha: do you mean make a closer crop, or reduce the > brightness or saturation of the green bg? Frame/crop-wise I was focussed as > close as the DA*55 would allow. This is a Hosta plant with bright > yellow-green leaves. I had already increased the contrast so as to lighten > and add depth to the fg and drastically reduce the bg luminosity. I agree > that the bg is still pretty saturated, partly from the contrast boost (two > Ps layers using Overlay) but also partly from being underexposed down there > (not much flash hit it). > > Thanks for looking and commenting! > > -bmw > > >> >> On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 7:42 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi<[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> Very nice! >>> >>> I've been using the mini softbox for a bit now, need a larger one too. >>> I also use a round foldup diffuser, tape it to the flash in a big >>> curve occasionally. Anything to spread out and sften the light. >>> >>> On Monday, July 20, 2009, Bruce Walker <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> Becoming acquainted with less than 2 week old enablement: DA* 55mm F1.4 >>>> ... >>>> >>>> http://is.gd/1FluZ >>>> >>>> Exp 1/100, f/1.4, ISO 200, 540FGZ flash inside Westcott 18" softbox; PP >>>> in CS4. >>>> >>>> Comments welcome! >>>> >>>> -bmw >>>> >>>> -- >>>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>>> follow the directions. >>>> >>> -- >>> Godfrey >>> www.gdgphoto.com >>> www.flickr.com/photos/gdgphoto >>> www.twitter.com/godfreydigiorgi >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> [email protected] >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>> follow the directions. >>> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
