flowers Orchids

Orchids Take in open cloudy day. Light was smooth but was not bright

enough. Played with Fill flash and exposure till I got the flower to

my liking and BG under exposed to dark.

 

Nikon D200, Nikkor 70-300 VR, @ 250 F10 @ 1/60 Center Weighted, -0.67

Fill flash if I remember correctly was -0.7

 

Shot raw adjusted in CS3, USM, resized and saved for WEB as JPG. There

was an end of a small stump in the BG that reflected flash I cloned it out

 

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Oh! Very nicely done! I love it!

Thanks Julie for your encouraging remarks Regards ifti

nice capture!

the colors are a liittle muted..

maybe because too much flash!

thanks for your comment. I like this picture the best. simple, wonderful and much detail. I'll be back to see more.

 

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you did a good job here with your lighting and taking them against a black background. They really stand out that way. However they seem to lack some sharpness. You got the colours just right. With pics like these though I want to "feel" the texture because that would make it a really great image. It would be worthwhile to experiment with that. All in all it's a very good job though.

I agree with the previous comment on this, Nice idea and good composition, DOF and colors, but the focus is a bit soft, I worked it a bit in PS and just a tad of unsharp mask seems to bring out a bit more details and the texture of the petals (see below). well done Iftikhar. Michel

I agree that the picture has a soft focus, but the newer version postet abov is just to hard to mee, I loses his magic (to me). May be overdone. See ya all

Simple and elegant. Well done.

Thanks everyone for your encouraging remarks and particularly Michel for taking time to give ideas. Happy shooting. Regards ifti