Mini Sunflowers

[mooimeisie]

If you loved sunflowers and had never printed any of your photos before, do you think these would make good canidates for a first printing? Have I missed something because they're my photos and I'm blind to their faults? They have been cropped to an 8 x 10 with the files sizes suiable for printing.

 

[mooimeisie]

Still :waiting: All honest comments will be greatly appreciated and I won't argue with you.

 

[SonnarSphere]

i think the 1st one should print out quite well. the dynamic range of the
second one is a bit limited. looks a bit dense to me..a bit noisy
compared to the first one, which looks crisper and more attractive.

 

[UUilliam]

i like #1 most, #2 you cut the leaf off which is a big no no but hey still beautiful, i would go with #1 though for printing

 

[Dagwood56]

I like the composition in these though I think your focus is just a tad off, but that could just be my eyes today [allergies flaring up ] and the white on the stem in the first shot is a bit harsh, but not overbearing. It would have been nice to see just a bit more detail in the center of the flower in the second shot also. Over all though, I like them and feel either would print well, though if I had to choose, I'd go with the second one.

 

[farmerj]

I would look at your noise filtering, tweek the Curves just a little bit, do some clarify darken it just a bit.

did you use unsharp mask at all?

BEFORE

this I tweeked with the above and a couple others. I look at the area I am curious about and then find a tutorial on Youtube that talks about it.

Clarify, curves and on occassion, histogram adjust really add to the flowers.

 

[Dagwood56]

farmerj -- very nice edit! :thumbup:

 

[farmerj]

farmerj -- very nice edit! :thumbup:

Thank you

 

[mooimeisie]

farmerj, nice.:thumbup: How about doing the second one too?

 

[farmerj]

email me the originals. I can get you better images back then.

 

[icassell]

I like them both from a compostition standpoint. Do you think a little fill lighting would help you get better detail in the center of the flowers?

Ian

 

[mooimeisie]

Fill lighting would have definitely helped. Oh, too much to remember when just taking a picture!!!