Surreal Garden

Feed back welcome.

PLEASE! give up the frame...

Can't win for loosing.....

Frameless:

Yes it is surreal. Before I read the title, I thought it was like something out of a David Lynch movie...very interesting coloration and effectively unnatural sharpness.

I like the perspective, composition. Colors are vibrant although I think this would have been good with more natural colors as well. Good photograph with or without frame!

really a great piece... bravo

We usually win by tightening up our photos, not by making them looser. This one, however seems to be just tight enough. And the colors - I've seen colors just like this once or twice in my life. As in Regina's previous shot, I can just feel the chill in the air as the last of the sunlight is muted by the approaching storm.

 

What a wonderful capture of a precious moment.

A strong composition and a powerful mood created, in part, by the contrast between the dark sky and bright, diffuse dsunflowers. Great work, Regina.

Nice compostion. In the category of "most of us would have missed it." The colors are plausible, but from the title, I gather you spent some time increasing contrast and making the whole image darker than it would appear in reality.

It does appear to be unnaturally dark to me as well. The reflections off the plants may be what makes this seem to be impossible lighting, but it is still a nice image. The only other thing Id like here is a lower angle so a couple of sunflowers would break through the horizon.

This is beautiful. Colors are vibrant and bright. Love the dark blue sky. Composition is quite pleasing. Great job. And the frame does not bother me at all - it is not overbearing

It's a very dramatic and compelling image. I've seen days like this with the thunderstorms building ominously in the west. The sunny peaceful idyllic foreground is in direct contrast to what we feel may be coming our way.

 

Truly nice. I say that framing is a personal choice and, as it doesn't affect my health, I couldn't care less if the images are framed or not.

I think the surreal colors work well here.

FWIW I prefer it without the frame, but I almost always do.

Looks like my kind of place.

Definitely a keeper, Regina. A great composition all the way around as far as I am concerned. Extremely nice work.

I guess you must have increased the saturation along with the contrast, and usually a little of that goes a very long way. In this case, however, I really love the effect, and it truly is surreal.

The colors remind me a lot of your shot of the storm coming across the south pasture. I believe it was taken from your porch?? Same kind of light, I just pumped it up a notch or two and added a bit of disfuse glow to make the flowers stand out. Thanks for the comments Lannie, always a pleasure.

Thanks for remembering, but you nailed it with the dark sky in the background and the bright sun in the foreground--with bright yellow flowers at that. Even the dirt in the plowed rows is interesting, Regina!

This is one of my favorite of all of your work. It's not what I would normally think of when I think of sunflowers. :-) Great garden, path, field in the background, blue sky, DOF ... nice work!!

very nice, I like it better unframed too.