On 10/12/2011 11:34 AM, Don Guthrie wrote:
From: Walt Gilbert <[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: PESO: Diaphanous
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On 10/11/2011 2:59 PM, Jack Davis wrote:
Beautiful lighting. Transparent blossom pedals add a nice effect.
Seems this might be a crop. Do you have any other crop choices?
Jack
Thank you, Jack!
It is a crop and I do have other options I guess, but the main problem
with the original is that there was a large highlight on the right where
there was open sky that seemed to distract from the flower. It doesn't
look "bad" per se, but I just felt that the image benefited from
isolating the flower from its primary source of illumination.
Here it is:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/walt_gilbert/6235967875/in/photostream
My gawd Walt thanks for cropping it! Uncropped hurts my eyes. Cropped
is perfect light combined with excellent composition on your part. I
hope you haven't buried other gems like this in your archive.
Thank you, Don.
Actually, there was another shot that I took the same day, and I even
posted a different shot of the same subject that, for reasons that
aren't clear to me now, I thought was better. But, going through the
archives, the fact that I somehow missed this one leaves me flummoxed:
http://www.flickriver.com/photos/walt_gilbert/6238232318/
The only reason I can come up with to explain why I passed over this one
in favor of the other is that the angle on the mimosa blossom in the
other shot made it look a little more "tidy" -- which is utterly stupid
to me in hindsight. But, there you have it.
-- Walt
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