sigqumfemfe 0 Posted December 29, 2007 I'm trying to learn how to do this. All comments and critiques are not only welcome, but greatly needed for me to improve. Link to comment
hopsage 0 Posted December 29, 2007 Here are a couple of things I'd suggest. First, the color temperature of the ambient light is jarring with respect to the color scheme of the plant itself. It's a rather cool bluish light, which serves mainly to wash out rather than accentuate the color in the flowers. This is made more acute by the amount of reflection on the flower itself. You could change this either by using a polarizing filter to reduce some of the reflections or by shooting in warmer light. Both together might overdo it: I'm not sure. If it were me, I'd try for better light rather than the filter, since the filter won't solve the overall color temperature problem.The second thing you can try is a change of focus. Many subjects have particular elements that need to be in focus if they are to appear sharp. For faces (human an otherwise), it's the eyes. For flowers, it's the stamen. Here are a couple of mine, for example: http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=6597006http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=6172168Obviously, we have a different choice of subject matter, but you get the idea, I hope. For your image, I doubt the depth of field would render the whole thing in focus, so you'd have to experiment with which part you want to accent. On the positive side, the arrangement of color contrast and the angular geometry of the leaf veins work well.Finally, I'd suggest for these "learning" pictures, that you disable the ratings. I didn't look at the ones for this image, but my experience is that they tend to bring responses mostly from the lazy and the trolls. Not useful, if you're hoping for real feedback. Link to comment
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