Not quite black & white

Posted by Len Romanick on Mon Mar 09, 2015 9:52 am

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Taken at a flower show, this small glass cube vase had two small red flowers and a stem with tiny leaves was about the size of a fist. The background was an awful blue which I found distracting and rather ugly so I processed as B&W which always seems to have the magical ability to simplify an image and smooth out distracting backgrounds. The resulting image was OK, but looked a bit flat so I did a little filter tweaking to add a touch of blue which made the image pop.

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50mm f/1.8 with 12mm extension tube
manual exposure 1/40sec @ f5.6 ISO 640
flash with soft box in the hot shoe

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by Cynthia Crawford on Tue Mar 10, 2015 7:16 pm

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Hi Len- welcome! That was a good idea to get rid of unwanted color. I like the blue tint. Perhaps the top stem stands out a bit-maybe crop it? That would bring out the nice soft flower even more. I like your creative thinking!

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