Bruce Dayton wrote: > Hello Scott, > > Daffodils are pretty cool flowers to shoot. The background > latticework and porch posts are too overpowering in this instance. > Perhaps colorizing just the flowers would give it a needed separation. > As it stands, the dark/light patterns of the background really compete > for my attention. > > Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > I think this one would work better in color, or with a much different > B&W tonal rendering. They seem sort of flat, the background competes > for attention. > > Godfrey > Jack Davis wrote: > Nice, Scott. > I'd have to eliminate the distraction of the sloping porch. But then, > I'm easily distracted. ;) > > Jack Thanks for all the replies. I sat there for a few minutes waiting for the breeze to die and ended up with one underexposed photograph. The white daffs and the white porch didn't work all that well in color, either. After tinkering around with the black and white conversion and not having much luck, I finally applied a blue filter. This provided more separation between the flowers and the porch than anything else. It also brought out the noise. If you click on the magnifying glass near the top right of the photo you can see that I over sharpened it, too.
The composition was initially appealing (I don't mind the sloping porch) but there's just too much else that's wrong with it. It'll probably go in the circular file sooner or later. Thanks again for looking, and thanks for the replies. -- Scott Loveless www.twosixteen.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
