cropped iris

photobug · Apr 17, 2004

Same iris I posted in the Photo Gallery yesterday, this time very early in the morning & with flash.

This is a cropped version. No particular goal here, except to eliminate some off-color background.

Is there enough space around the front petal, or does it need a bit more breathing room?

Geronimo · Apr 17, 2004

I think the crop is a good one. The only thing I would suggest is to rotate the image till the iris is a nice vertical. It would also remove some of the petal in the right side background.

jack · Apr 17, 2004

hiya fellas
yeah jim , maybe just a few more mm on the bottom.
it looks pretty perfect, dont know if that would improve it.
IMO, i wouldnt rotate it, it's naturally right as-is.

photobug · Apr 17, 2004

Thanks for the comments guys, I'll look at adding a bit to the bottom.

This is destined to be a greeting card photo, so a bit more space is probably a good idea.

terri · Apr 17, 2004

The lighting here is just exquisite! Very nice job. I wouldn't mind seeing a little more black at the bottom, but not a lot.

A winner.

photobug · Apr 18, 2004

Thanks terri.

mrsid99 · Apr 18, 2004

It seems somewhat gray to me, I'd prefer to see it brighter and particularly the colors more intense.
BTW, love the DOF now!

Sharkbait · Apr 19, 2004

mrsid99 said:
It seems somewhat gray to me, I'd prefer to see it brighter and particularly the colors more intense.
BTW, love the DOF now!

I agree. I don't see any true whites in it. Compositionally it's a knockout though. :-D

photobug · Apr 19, 2004

Unfortunately I shot this @ 31mm, so I had to crank down the exposure comp to keep from blowing the highlights.

Had I shot it closer to 75mm I could have been farther away and probably had a better result.

More likely if I knew what I was doing with a flash it would have worked better. :wink:

And there is just the smallest hint of purple, even in the large petals. They aren't pure white, though it's pretty darn close I imagine.

Thanks for the comments guys. I'll pull the RAW file and see if I can adjust the exposure a bit to get the colors a bit brighter and not blow them out.

metroshane · Apr 20, 2004

I love the exposure and composition. But I hate the cropping. The problem is that the pic is so interesting...that I'm let down I can't see all of the flower. I need some resolution...

photobug · Apr 20, 2004

Ok, one reason I cropped this so drastically was because the flash shadow cut off the stalk, which looks weird. Cropped as closely as it was it was less of an issue.

This is a crop of the original, which was in landscape orientation. I left the whole flower on this one, and brightened it up some, but there still isn't a true white without blowing it out.

Anyway...