The Rose

[ArkansasBandit]

This rose has been dead for 8 months but I got really interested in trying to get a good picture out of it, what do you think?

 

[Jeremy Z]

It does look quite dead, and a little depressing. Technically, it is good, but the subject matter is kind of creepy.

 

[misskitty5077]

Nice and sharp. Good DOF. Good colors too, especially considering how dried roses can go blah as they dry.

I don't find it creepy at all. I wonder what occasion it was saved from.

 

[LaFoto]

Well, "sad" might be the word (it would go well on a condolence card), "creepy" it is not, I think. What was the original photo like, where you had not applied any selective colouring? Was it too bright to transport notions of transience and death?

As to the composition: I somewhat deplore the bright and out-of-focus little flowers in the foreground. They cast those strong shadows produced by the on-camera flash onto the petals of the rose, and those shadows tend to kill any photo. On-camera flash should be avoided for most of the time, other than as fill-flash in actually quite bright situations.

 

[opfor1015]

Thank you for your comments and advice. I am the poster's brother and did the editing of the photo.

The original was not all that bright; the selective coloring is just the result of me being bored and wanting to try my hand at photo editing.:mrgreen:

 

[Scooter]

Roses are always special, even the old "dead" ones. I like the selective colouring and hope to try my hand at it someday. Is it time consuming?

 

[opfor1015]

Time spent depends on the subject you're coloring....i think that makes sense.