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Think I'll make this the last of this series.
Verdicts on this background please.
Glad you all enjoyed with me the River City celebrations.
It obviously means more to people who live in Scotland.
Kate
| Brand: | Canon |
| Camera: | Canon EOS 450D |
| Lens: | EF-S60mm f/2.8 Macro USM |
| Recording media: | RAW (digital) |
| Date Taken: | 20 Sep 2012 - 12:59 PM |
| Focal Length: | 60mm |
| Lens Max Aperture: | f/2.8 |
| Aperture: | f/6.7 |
| Shutter Speed: | 0.3sec |
| Exposure Comp: | 0.0 |
| ISO: | 100 |
| Exposure Mode: | Manual |
| Metering Mode: | Multi-segment |
| Flash: | Off, Did not fire |
| White Balance: | Custom |
| Title: | Alstreomeria with Blue Background |
| Username: | 
Irishkate |
| Uploaded: | 26 Sep 2012 - 7:16 PM |
| Tags: | Blue background, Flowers, Flowers & plants, Vase |
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| Votes: | 41 |
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that is very good,the background is grey what did you use for light,but overall a smasher.
billy
The background needs to be more defocussed Kate, much to prominent.
Regards
Trev.
v2 is the better of the two, but I agree with Trev in that the bg looks too sharp and creased.
Dave
The alstromeria are wonderful Kate. I have to agree with other commentators that the background is more intrusive than it needs to be - a plain one would suit me very well. There is something a little odd about the variants - the images are cropped slightly differently so that the image moves as the variants are viewed - did you intend this? Lovely though!
Mike
I'm afraid I must agree with Trev and Mike I'm not too keen on the background it is too prominent. The flowers are really beautiful though, I reckon a plainer, paler background may work better.
Sorry I meant to say the colour works fine it is those creases in the cloth that I find a bit distracting
Yes the creases are a bit distracting. Can you perhaps try moving the vase further away from the background and focus in on the flowers, throwing the background out of focus?
I think I still prefer the earlier shots with the more softer coloured backgrounds.
Carol
Both these images are beautiful Kate. The flowers stand out against the background. My personal view on the background is that the creases add to the image overall. Perhaps if you were able to reshoot the scene with the b/g out of focus you would see what works best
Jim
Kate, I like v1.......10/10 for trying somthing new. I think its a great idea, I wonder if a sort of velvet material would have less lines.......worth trying.
Paul.
A well composed image Kate love the colour tones of both, V2 is my favourite (I think I might have ironed (carefully!) the strong creases out of the material, then you would only have had soft folds which would have contrasted well with those lovely sharply captured flowers). This is a lovely composition, with excellent light and the set up could work so well tried out with different flowers.
Beautiful shot !!!!....lovely arrangement, & the 'bluish' B/G of V2 works better to bring the flowers 'forward' in the
image (dark colours recede....& light colours tend to come 'forwards)........top notch !!!!!
If you have the room to do it....I would set the vase/flowers a little more away from the B/G for the next one, & 'practice'
a little more with the 'iron' on those creases ??.
Another thought was to drape the B/G cloth so that any 'folds' occur diagonally, or in a curve ?.....fiddly maybe, but worth
taking trouble over to add the final touch of 'class' to the shot ..............
Lovely shots.................... at first i thought wow.... love the bg, then on second look I do think it destracts from the main subject, if it was ironed and in softer focus I think it would work well, I like the bits of the bg that ripple and shine.
Now I have finished babbling................. I hate ironing
Diane
The flowers are lovely, the bg are distracting, tend to look at the bg rather than the flowers. IMHO
v2, dark blue and yellow just make a fine combination like stars in a night sky
Quote: Of the two, I like the darker v2. I think the suggestions re the background are all good. This would be a good case for using layers and blurring the background.
Yes I agree here, I think the darker blue sets the yellow flowers off so well.
I might have tried blurring the b/g a little.
Well done.
B.
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