flowers Flowers

Comments are appreciated. Thank you.

Beautiful!

very nice composition and point of view, but too dark for me, sorry to say.

Hi Ben - I appreciate your feedback. I was trying to get more detail into it - perhaps I went too far. One problem I have is that I'm on a Mac Powerbook - photos always look a lot lighter on my screen than on PC monitors - I'm always trying to split the difference. Perhaps I'll repost a bit ligther. Thanks again.

Amy, beautiful flowers with that gorgeous blue sky, the colors are to die for. Good composition and detail. Sondra 5/5

What a beautiful image. You could brighten up the flowers a little, but not a lot. Well done.

hi amy, i have the same issue! now i am on a monitor that is darker than what i use to photo edit, cuz it is a desktop. my understanding is that laptops (which i use to edit) are brighter. so it may well be that on my laptop the darkness i see here is less of an issue for me. but i think selectively brightening the flowers with a layer mask or something in photoshop (that's what i use, if you haven't tried it, worth learning, look on my portfolio page i've put up some info about it) would help. i totally understand the problem with blowing out details with highlights. here i think you can push a little on the yellows and the upper greens without going too far or disturbing the pleasing mood of the shot. but i want to underline i don't think you have a long way to go, just a little.

Hi Ben - thanks for the info - I'll take a look at your page. I do have and (lightly) use Photoshop.

wow. 'nough said.

beautifully done and nice details. no need to worry about it being too dark, looks perfect on my calibrabted LCD.

Thanks all for your generous comments. I did play with the lightness/contrast a bit, and also altered the color balance a tad - new version up now. Thanks again.