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[SquarePeg39]

 

[SquarePeg39]

I'm bumping this because I'm curious what others think of it. I really like it, but maybe others see it as just a blob instead of a subtle abstract. Please feel free to be honest if you don't like it. Also tried it in b&w but liked the color version better.

 

[Gary A.]

Once you learn focus ... this would be a hell of a photo ... okay ... honestly, I like it. Dreamy, soft, pink ... something you would want to fall into. Color works better than the B&W. (Was this with 70-1300?)

 

[SquarePeg39]

Once you learn focus ... this would be a hell of a photo ... okay ... honestly, I like it. Dreamy, soft, pink ... something you would want to fall into. Color works better than the B&W. (Was this with 70-1300?)

Thanks Gary for your feedback. No, not the 70-1300, lol - this was with the 105.

 

[jcdeboever]

I like it. If it were mine, I would create four images in 4 different pastel colors, slightly space them, and create one image, print, and frame. In a perfect world, probably would look great with the 4 images as emulsion lifts on some heavy, high quality water color paper. Also would make a splendid set of 4, (one for each color) coffee mugs as Christmas gifts too.

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[smoke665]

I like the color version best, though along the lines brought up by JC, since there's not really a central focus point in the image, I think it would benefit by some form of separation. Either white space a complimentary pale green, or adjacent color in the same quadrant (IE violets or orange/browns) separating the pinks. I'm always impressed at the softness you can bring out in an image!

 

[SquarePeg39]

I like it. If it were mine, I would create four images in 4 different pastel colors, slightly space them, and create one image, print, and frame. In a perfect world, probably would look great with the 4 images as emulsion lifts on some heavy, high quality water color paper. Also would make a splendid set of 4, (one for each color) coffee mugs as Christmas gifts too.

Thanks for the suggestions. I'm not familiar with "emulsion lifts". Will have to look into that. Love the coffee mug idea. Maybe a set for each of my aunts.

 

[SquarePeg39]

I like the color version best, though along the lines brought up by JC, since there's not really a central focus point in the image, I think it would benefit by some form of separation. Either white space a complimentary pale green, or adjacent color in the same quadrant (IE violets or orange/browns) separating the pinks. I'm always impressed at the softness you can bring out in an image!

I appreciate your taking the time to comment. I'm not sure I'm following what you are suggesting though regarding white space...

 

[alexis.alvarez]

Love the color version, but you might want to bump up both the highlights and shadows a bit, but not touching the midtones.

 

[jcdeboever]

I like it. If it were mine, I would create four images in 4 different pastel colors, slightly space them, and create one image, print, and frame. In a perfect world, probably would look great with the 4 images as emulsion lifts on some heavy, high quality water color paper. Also would make a splendid set of 4, (one for each color) coffee mugs as Christmas gifts too.

Thanks for the suggestions. I'm not familiar with "emulsion lifts". Will have to look into that. Love the coffee mug idea. Maybe a set for each of my aunts.

@limr has done some cool ones, along with @terri but I think they both used film to do theirs. I read somewhere it can be done with digital files as well.

 

[smoke665]

I'm not sure I'm following what you are suggesting

In this clip you've got a really pleasing transition (isolating your central flower but not overpowering) above and below, a connection of the two I think would benefit the image. Make it less apt to have the "blob" look you were afraid of. Otherwise as always, you have such nice images. They like "comfort food" for the eye!

 

[Derrel]

I prefer the color version of this. I've seen this type of shot quite a bit; at one time, buying old photocopier or oscilloscope lenses with f/0.7 or f/0.95 or f/1.0 apertures (and no iris diaphragm!) was kind of a thing for this type of close-up floral shot. The craze lasted a few years, and was popular a decade or so back. I think this type of photo expression is perfectly fine and valid, but my personal preference is to see a LITTLE BIT of the frame in sharp focus, and then to play off of that, as the DOF slides out. But obviously, there's no rulebook on how this ought to be done. It's just that my own preferences tend to be one way; if this looks good to you or others, that's plenty of justification for doing it your way.

 

[Krell0]

I like it. One of the note i teresting abstracts I feel like it would be better if the one orangeish thing (proper word eludes me atm) protruding from behind the flower wasnt there, although I could be totally wrong. Difficult to picture

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