Thanks, Larry. I appreciate your suggestions. They are cropped, but not dramatically I have tried several flowers, and am indeed contemplating a series. I like the relative flatness of the images because I was thinking of them as abstracts, but trying some lighting effect to vary the appearance of the blossoms is a great idea.
Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Tue, Aug 8, 2017 at 1:02 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Daniel J. Matyola wrote: > >> Another abstract of a blossom floating in our swimming pool: >> >> https://dan-matyola.squarespace.com/danmatyolas-pesos/2017/ >> 8/8/floating-too >> K-5 IIs. FA 100 mm F 2.8 Macro >> Comments and criticisms are invited. >> > > Even nicer than the previous one. Brilliant idea using the pool as a > background, it works perfectly. My one quibble is that having lots more > space to the left of the flower than below it is just a little > disconcerting to my eye. I do like how the stamen/pistil(?) is lined up > right in the diagonal. Even so, it might be worth at least trying trimming > from the left and top so that the space on the left is the same or 1.5 > times the space underneath. That would also have the advantage of making > the flower larger in the picture. > > How tight of a crop is it already? If you have lots of space on either > side to work with, once it's repositioned, you could try rotating it. > > In any case, I love the background, you could do a whole series like > this. If you do, maybe try shooting with a speedlight from the side to get > a little more shape and definition on the flower. > > > >> Dan Matyola >> http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola >> > > -- > Larry Colen [email protected] (postbox on min4est) http://red4est.com/lrc > > > > -- > 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.
