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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
Mike

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 ..............
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
Now I have finished babbling................. I hate ironing

Diane

ChristineD
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The flowers are lovely, the bg are distracting, tend to look at the bg rather than the flowers. IMHO

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.