Soft Colors

Gallery: FloraPosted September 23, 201061 views12 comments

Hi everyone. I'm not sure what these small cluster of flowers are, the stems look kind of like wild garlic

I was going for the soft look here and this is what I came up with.

Canon 7D with tripod, Canon 100mm macro, AE Priority, 1/100sec, F/5, +1/3 exposure comp, ISO 400.

Thanks for looking and all C&C welcomed.
John

Comments

12 comments

Comment posted by Albert Darmo on September 23, 2010 at 10:15 PM

Hi John

Love this composition

The soft sublime color and form are amazing. Your choice of DOF is marvelous. Monet would be proud.

Albert Darmo. Canada

Registered on November 25, 2008, 1386 Posts, 11978 Comments

Comment posted by Pat Sampson on September 23, 2010 at 10:31 PM

Beautiful image John. Love the color palette and the dof decision really makes the image for me. Superb. No suggestions on my part.

Pat

Registered on May 19, 2007, 953 Posts, 15989 Comments

Comment posted by Andrew Finlayson on September 23, 2010 at 11:59 PM

Lovely shot, great comp and nice subtle tones.

Registered on July 29, 2010, 26 Posts, 404 Comments

Comment posted by Gary Yeoh on September 24, 2010 at 12:50 AM

John:
Good soft focus image. Like the pastel color. The only distraction is the white patch in the RLC; would be great if this area has the same color palette.

Registered on September 1, 2009, 588 Posts, 8184 Comments

Comment posted by Nathan Buck on September 24, 2010 at 9:48 AM

Enough in sharp focus to catch my attention John. The colors are great. I like the soft/crammed look. Very nice.

Nathan

Registered on November 1, 2003, 1101 Posts, 13589 Comments

Comment posted by Brigitte Lorenz on September 24, 2010 at 9:58 AM

very lovely...like the colors

Brigitte

Registered on January 10, 2009, 187 Posts, 1507 Comments

Comment posted by Carol Hyman on September 24, 2010 at 10:37 AM

Oh, John, you've almost got it. The flowers and the pink background are perfect. I find the OOF white/gray in the LR distracting. I think some PS or NIK magic could solve the problem. and in this case, I see no reason to have all of that space on the right side of the image. You are so close to perfection here, I can almost taste it.

Keep shooting, please.

Carol

Registered on January 18, 2007, 597 Posts, 8062 Comments

Comment posted by Harley Goldman on September 24, 2010 at 6:44 PM

Cool image and nice use of DOF. I am in the camp of questioning the white area lower right. I find it overwhelms the image a bit for me.

Registered on November 19, 2003, 586 Posts, 11271 Comments

Comment posted by Morris McClung on September 24, 2010 at 7:54 PM

The background really makes this shot. Your dof making most of the image soft works extremely well.

Registered on May 7, 2007, 670 Posts, 19650 Comments

Comment posted by Michael Lowe on September 25, 2010 at 3:53 PM

John, everything in this shots works very well except the white wash in the lrc.

Registered on February 11, 2004, 777 Posts, 5252 Comments

Comment posted by Bill Fach on September 25, 2010 at 11:29 PM

John: I really like the main subject and the left side. The white patch on the right doesn't work for me all that well. I would be tempted to crop this to a vertical. >=))>

Registered on November 1, 2003, 1805 Posts, 26981 Comments

Comment posted by Debashis Bandyopad on September 27, 2010 at 10:01 AM

Nice image John.. I do agree with the comments on the white patch though.

Registered on June 24, 2007, 130 Posts, 1309 Comments