Flowers in Homer, AK

After a closer look at my recent uploads, I noticed a lot of blue

skies, green foregrounds with some white snow thrown in every

once in a while. I decided that I needed to show y'all that some

of my images involve other colors!! Any comments or ratings are

most welcome! :-)

Good composition and clean. Taken around noon?

Ray, you often change your comments before I have a chance to reply to them! :-) Yes ... it was definitely taken around noon, and that's what I really don't like about the pic ... too bright and contrasty. But the pinks and fuschias are wonderful, so I went with that instead of trying to tone them down.

Yeah, sometime I revise them to make my critiques smooth. :-)

What I learned from taking flower shots is that sometimes when I get so close to it, it almost looks human face, and it's almost as if I was taking a portrait. Therefore some of the portraiture techniques may apply: upclose to get clarity; wider aperture to seperate the face from the BG; take it in the shades, natural window light, or at dawn/sunset. I like the vivid colors on this one; constrast gives a good saturation, but on the expense of textural subtlety.

 

I had the same issue with my "Monk in the mountain" shot, Alec Ee told me the similar things about photos taken at noon.

This looks so plastic to me, that it makes it nice, and I love this 'lavishly' look. Keep them going.

 

Make I any sence

Els, you make a lot of sense! I love getting comments from you on my images! :-)

Definitely a bright one, Lou Ann. What's the blue in the upper right - another type of flower?

Definitely not blue and white:-). With things like flowers and stuff in direct sunlight there are highlights and reflections that a polarizer will help with.

Great colors!

Yes, Kim ... there were all sorts of flowers in this flower bed ... it was at the home of a friend.

Color that just won't quit! Like the contrast, here, too Lou Ann.

This is an eye popper! What is the dark blue at the top right? A little distracting.