Motif: Red Snap Dragon

Posted by amp5213 on Mon Feb 21, 2005 9:16 pm

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Canon 1D Mark II, 100mm macro, ISO 200, 1/13 at f/8

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by Tom Whelan on Mon Feb 21, 2005 9:24 pm

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Nice shot for the motif. Lovely details and rim lighting, and pretty amazing how you balanced the brighter background with the dark hues of the flower. Did you use a reflector?

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by Lisa Gimber on Tue Feb 22, 2005 1:42 am

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Gorgeous!!!!!!!!!!

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by Mike Moats on Tue Feb 22, 2005 6:42 am

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Hey Art, Nice image. Good details and beautiful color. Nice work.

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by amp5213 on Tue Feb 22, 2005 11:35 am

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TomW wrote: Did you use a reflector?

I did not use a reflector.

I held detail in both the flowers and background with the exposure. I took a couple of different exposures and checked the histogram. I used a minor levels/curves adjustment in Photoshop to bring up the flower detail a little more.

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by Michael Brown on Tue Feb 22, 2005 11:46 am

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Wonderful rich colors in this beauty, and very nice background shown.
I would be tempted to crop the bottom a bit, right up to where that white area is in the background that I think distracts from the overall image a wee bit.
Still, ........ really like this one Art, and hope you have a bunch more to show us this season.

Keep'em coming buddy, and thanks for posting this one!

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by AForns on Tue Feb 22, 2005 12:28 pm

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Excellent light management Art !!!!! Love the shadow detail !!!

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by amp5213 on Tue Feb 22, 2005 3:27 pm

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Michael Brown wrote: hope you have a bunch more to show us this season.

Hopefully spring will be here in New Jersey in a few weeks and my flowers will start to push up through the ground and I'll have more new stuff to share.

You may be right about the crop on the bottom.

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by Wil Hershberger on Thu Feb 24, 2005 12:32 pm

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Nice comp however, the flowers are much darker than the background and the background keeps pulling my eye there. I think that using a reflector to add light to the flowers and using a diffuser or umbrella to shade the background may have helped some.
Thanks for posting,

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