A beautiful flower! Following up on Larry's comment, what might help a lot is a radial filter in lightroom to darken the background and lighten the flower. Or use the post-crop vignetting slider.
Henk Op vr 3 feb. 2023 om 06:51 schreef Larry Colen <[email protected]>: > > > > On Feb 2, 2023, at 9:17 PM, Daniel J. Matyola <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > From the garden in our resort condo: > > > > http://dan-matyola.squarespace.com/danmatyolas-pesos/2023/2/2/bird-of-pa > > > > K-5 IIs, smc DA 35 mm F 2.8 Macro Limited > > Comments and criticisms are invited and appreciated. > > Lovely flower, I wish that it were better separated from the background. > > If I were shooting it, and couldn’t arrange to have a simple black > background behind it, I would try and do some sort of Rembrandt lighting on > it, either with a speed light when there was less background light, or even > just some sort of hot light at night from the side so that the leaves > behind the flower were not illuminated. Possibly doing something fancy to > shade the leaves and use a mirror or reflector to put more sunlight on the > flower. > > Another thing that might help is to use a longer lens and move back so > that there is a lot less background visible, so that more of the background > were something darker that contrasts more with the flower (like the leaves > in shadow rather than sunlight concrete) > > > -- > Larry Colen > [email protected] > > > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
