Water beads

saltface · Jun 19, 2008

A few tries at floral photography. Please be harshly constructive.

I'm not sure which I like better, so here's the color one as well. This was my first attempt at using curves in Lab color.

And one more. I find these flowers a disgusting color, but for some reason I always take pictures of them.

Thanks!

Overread · Jun 19, 2008

With the first flower I have to say I prefer the first to the colour version - the colour is a little overly bright and that is hiding some details and making the colours look a little washed out.
As for the composition I think a little tiny bit more along the bottom, but other than that its good!
In the second the colours are much more powerful and stand out well - whilst you have done really well with the depth of field and in caputing the centre as a detailed spot.
I think you might try to remove all the background and have it totally black with just the flower

Sw1tchFX · Jun 19, 2008

color color color

The sepia is flat and uninteresting. The color pops out at you.

saltface · Jun 19, 2008

Thanks for the input!
I edited the top one at work on a poorly calibrated monitor. So I bumped up the color levels thinking it was too washed out.
And yeah, I saw the unfortunate crop when I got my film back. I could have sworn it was all in when I hit the shutter button.

LaFoto · Jun 20, 2008

The colour version of the top flower photo does not seem washed out to me and I definitely prefer it to the sepia version, for the flower looks good against the all black background, and I least like to see the green of the buds and the stem on the right gone (

). I want it there!

Of these three, it is the middle one for me, please!

saltface · Jun 25, 2008

LaFoto said:
The colour version of the top flower photo does not seem washed out to me and I definitely prefer it to the sepia version, for the flower looks good against the all black background, and I least like to see the green of the buds and the stem on the right gone (). I want it there!

Of these three, it is the middle one for me, please!

Thanks, I can't do too much to calibrate this monitor and I've had people tell me my color was way off (even though prints look fine). Maybe it's them, not me?