Tulips 2

Really nice close-up, the textures, layers of the color & DOF are perfect, gorgeous flower shot, Teresa!!! Best regards.

I'm with Richard. Well seen :0)

Wonderful job on capturing the texture of the tulip petsls.

Very sweet with lovely colours & textures. ( find the the bottom blur parts a slight distraction though.)

Really beautiful work, Teresa!

Thans, All!!!

Great capture, composition, details and colors, Teresa!!

Thanks a lot for your comments!

If you go to art school, where folks have more control over the colors in a composition than we photographers, they talk about color balance. A picture won't necessarily appear balanced if half are of Color X and half are of Color Y. Color X, e.g., the magenta flowers, might be visually much more powerful than Color Y, e.g., the yellow/green background. A balanced composition would have perhaps 35 percent bright magenta nad 65 percent yellow/green.

 

http://photo.net/philip-greenspun/photos/pcd0558/powerscourt-roses-23 is one example (not a great photo, but close to classical color balance).

 

http://photo.net/philip-greenspun/photos/pcd4716/chinchon-red-chairs-35 is way out of balance since red is so much stronger than white.

 

http://photo.net/philip-greenspun/photos/pcd4715/chinchon-green-chairs-36 is reasonably well balanced.

 

http://photo.net/philip-greenspun/photos/pcd4101/ding-darling-roseate-closeup-21 has magenta balanced by an image that is 80 percent grays.

Nice and effective crop and beautiful colors. Too bad about the unfocused flower at the lower right though. Apart from that it's a very nice photo.

 

/Rasmus

Hi Philip, thanks a lot for your comments. And confirm that I haven't been to art school, but even so, I agree with your examples. More yellow and green would have made the photo more appealing. But in this case, the tulips are packed very closely together, I can't do much about it (short of cutting the others down, which is of course unacceptable) so the best I can do is to zoom in to get a clear subject. I haven't done any ps work except color curves and slight sharpening.

Excellent cropping and colors Teresa.

Teresa: I wasn't suggesting that you needed to go to art school! We aren't painters so we have to take the world as it comes, more or less. At best we can keep the art theory principles in mind when selecting photos to display.

Thanks, Rakesh, Philip, Rasmus and Michael!!! Really appreciate it :)

WOW!!! Ivana

... so... tulips.

Hi

Thanks, Ivana and Bruegel!!