Tulip 2

Gallery: FloraPosted March 28, 201036 views9 comments

This is another photo of the tulips I photographed last week. The petals opened right up compared to the cup-like apperance I usually see. I like these peeking through shot at the inside of flowers. Does it work for you or is there too little of the pistil and stamens showing?
Manual exposure with tripod, 1/20 sec, f/5.6, ISO 100, Canon 100mm macro, side lit from window.
Thanks for looking and all C&C welcomed.

Comments

9 comments

Comment posted by Gary Yeoh on March 28, 2010 at 9:06 PM

John:
This works for me. The center is sharply focused and framed by the OOF petals. I find I am tilting my head slightly when looking that the image to try to get the foreground OOF petal horizontal. Excellent comp.

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Comment posted by David E Lester on March 28, 2010 at 9:10 PM

Love it, for me it almost looks like candy which is a good thing, it keeps my eye looking at it, great shot

Dave

Registered on March 24, 2010, 155 Posts, 793 Comments

Comment posted by Dan Borzynski on March 28, 2010 at 10:35 PM

The only thing I might change here is cropping just a bit off of the top so that the width of the black at the top is about the same as that on the bottom (for symmetry). Beyond that, I don't think I would change anything.

Thanks for posting.

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Comment posted by Bill Fach on March 28, 2010 at 11:06 PM

John: Plenty of the center for me. I think I would be inclined to crop this much tighter and would like to see most of the top negative space and all of the bottom eliminated. I do like your DOF/POF choice. >=))>

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Comment posted by Morris McClung on March 29, 2010 at 5:41 PM

Works for me, too. The dof and the pov are very effective. NIce light and color.

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Comment posted by Albert Darmo on March 29, 2010 at 6:48 PM

Hi John

Very creative and well crafted. Agree with Bill, That a crop would make this even better.

Albert Darmo Canada

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Comment posted by Pat Sampson on March 29, 2010 at 9:53 PM

John,

I'll just echo what Bill has already said and add that I think this is a neat image.

Pat

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Comment posted by Bernie Kasper on March 29, 2010 at 10:41 PM

Beautiful image John !!

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Comment posted by Russell Colletta on March 29, 2010 at 10:51 PM

Very creative and effective perspective. Like this a lot.

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