Moss Cascading

Gallery: FloraPosted October 12, 201052 views8 comments

My 5 year old son recognized the beauty of this moss. I found it refreshingly challenging to frame a good composition. Shutter speed: 1/50, aperture: f/3.6, ISO 400.

All comments and criticism are appreciated...thanks for looking and any feedback!

Stephanie Weisman
My blog is located at:
http://stephanieweisman.smugmug.com/

Comments

8 comments

Comment posted by Carol Hyman on October 12, 2010 at 11:11 AM

Hi Stephanie, Welcome to NPN and Flora.

Give your son a camera.

Lots of beauty in this cascading moss. No idea what the diagonal on the right side is, but it's distracting.

Cheers,

Carol

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

Comment posted by Pat Sampson on October 12, 2010 at 7:20 PM

Beautiful color palette and overall the image makes me think of a star field. I might consider a 90 degree CW rotation but regardless I'd probably clone out the stem? running from top to bottom near the viewer's right side. Aside from the stem? thing I like the image as posted.

Pat

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

Comment posted by jamie pringle on October 12, 2010 at 8:38 PM

I like the idea and couldn't agree more with the beauty of this plant. I would consider going back and shooting this again and having the leaves cover the entire frame. Very challenging because the plant is not perfectly flat, but I would try different angles, dof, and distances. Looks like you are using a macro lens?

Registered on August 10, 2005, 323 Posts, 1216 Comments

Comment posted by Ramamohan Pai on October 12, 2010 at 10:16 PM

I like this as presented (minus the vertical stem as mentioned by earlier posters) and also Jamie's idea of filling the frame with the moss.

I like the "star bursts" randomly in the frame.

Registered on November 1, 2003, 550 Posts, 9037 Comments

Comment posted by Albert Darmo on October 12, 2010 at 10:47 PM

Hi Stephanie

You are blessed with a son who loves the beauty of nature, the shot is well seen and crafted , except for that distracting stem on the RT.
Albert Darmo. Canada

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

Comment posted by Bill Fach on October 13, 2010 at 5:49 AM

Stephanie: Great subject. I agree with the others regarding the twig(?). The cloning work it would take to make it go away would be substantial. My suggestion in the future is to make it go away physically before you trip the shutter.>=))>

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

Comment posted by Elisabeth Czwikla on October 13, 2010 at 6:52 PM

the moss is really nice and makes a good imaage, but maybe I would have moved that dry branch.

Registered on December 9, 2007, 145 Posts, 852 Comments

Comment posted by Catherine Reilly on October 14, 2010 at 5:06 PM

I agree with the others' comments, Stephanie. Love the "starbursts" of the moss and how uneven, or random, they appear. Too bad about the darn white stem- no harm in plucking those things out before taking the shot. I think your son make a very good photographer's assistant! What fun taking him along on your photo outings.

Registered on August 16, 2006, 603 Posts, 9192 Comments