Bev Sampson
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Not even close to Eric's. I do love to photograph flowers.
Canon EOS 1D Mark II
1/50s f/16.0 at 180.0mm iso400 with Flash
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Not even close to Eric's. I do love to photograph flowers.
Canon EOS 1D Mark II
1/50s f/16.0 at 180.0mm iso400 with Flash
Bev
Bev Sampson
New member
No comments? No criticisms?
Bev
Bev
Gregory Reshetniak
New member
I'd say it is "flat". Try to change the angle of shooting.
Bart_van_der_Wolf
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I agree, although changing the lighting angle would already make a big change. An asymmetrical composition also helps (e.g. golden section ratio, for a start, not as a dogma).
Bart
Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Bev,
I do like the flower, but one cannot easily undo limitations of lighting. We just learn each time. A good thing to do is to print out this picture and put arrows on place that have issues and one can build a portfolio for imoproving one's next shoot. Following Bart's pointer, I have quicky assembled some ideas that might illustrate this point a little better.
© 2007 Beverly Simpson; edits by Asher Kelman
© 2007 Beverly Simpson; edits by Asher Kelman
These are not meant to repalce or be "better than" your own version, rather suggest ways of exploring composition when you frame. Part of this issue is not your fault, rather the almost religious use of the aphorism "frame close and crop closer". As a design tool for those who really are very experienced and want to be the Samurai swordsmen of cropping right first time, that's fine. However, I believe that overall, ths concept is a greater cause of image damage than almost anything else. My thoughts are based on my own pragmatic guide, "Thou shall not put your image in prison!"
Asher