Forget-me-nots (repost in comments)

Gallery: FloraPosted May 15, 2011126 views12 comments

These forget-me-not flowers reseed and come up every year in my partially shaded flower bed. I really like the delicateness of these flowers and the beautiful blue color. When starting to bloom some flowers can have a pinkish color.

Canon Rebel T1i. 90mm macro lens. F/13 for 1/20 sec. ISO 100.

Comments

12 comments

Comment posted by Pat Sampson on May 15, 2011 at 8:40 PM

Love the glow from this Carolyn and the colors. It's also a fine composition though. My only reservation is the stem and bud in the viewer's lower right. The bud has an interesting shape and you did a good job of capturing the detail there but it seems to me to compete a little with the flowers. I can imagine it gone and a slightly tighter crop. It certainly wouldn't depict the plant as accurately but it would emphasize the blooms a bit more. Regardless, the image is beautiful.

pat

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Comment posted by Mark Seaver on May 15, 2011 at 8:44 PM

These are beautiful flowers and including the young magenta ones adds interest. On my monitor there's a noticeable rim around all of the flower petals. I don't know enough to tell whether it's a processing artifact or a jpg artifact.

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Comment posted by Bill Fach on May 15, 2011 at 8:58 PM

Carolyn: I like the bold color palette. The lighting looks a bit contrasty for my tastes but only marginally so. I think I would definitely make the stem on the lower right go away. Beautiful blooms. >=))>

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Comment posted by Bernie Kasper on May 15, 2011 at 10:04 PM

What a beautiful shade of Blue you were able to capture here Carolyn, lovely work !!

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Comment posted by Ramamohan Pai on May 15, 2011 at 10:11 PM

I like this, Carolyn

- superb plane of focus and DOF management here. I like how the 3 blooms form an implied triangle - the pink smaller one near the tip add so much to the beauty of this frame.

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Comment posted by Philip Southard on May 15, 2011 at 10:39 PM

Carolyn, nice color and detail.

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Comment posted by SandyRichardsBrown on May 16, 2011 at 12:26 AM

Really nice detail and colours!
I agree that the stem is a little distracting. I'd clone it out from just below the left lower bud.
Nice!
Sandy

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Comment posted by Carolyn Derstine on May 16, 2011 at 10:50 AM

Thanks for comments and critiques. As several have suggested I cut out the one bud on the right side and cropped tighter. Is this a better picture? Interested in feedback. I do think I like it better.

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Comment posted by Carol Hyman on May 16, 2011 at 11:32 AM

Carolyn, I think you really caught the essence of this flower in the repost. Nice job.

Cheers,

Carol

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Comment posted by Bob Duff on May 16, 2011 at 12:59 PM

Carolyn this is a very appealing image. I like the comp and detail you've captured. The repost is better as per suggestions. Excellent job on the cloning out the stem and crop. I do notice haloing around the petal edges. I think it might be a tad too saturated. I aslo see the over saturation in the yellows.

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Comment posted by Gary Yeoh on May 16, 2011 at 8:20 PM

Carolyn:
Fine looking image with strong contrasty colors. The repost looks stronger.

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Comment posted by Bob&Charly Nelson on May 17, 2011 at 7:01 PM

While both are fine captures Carolyn, the repost is very strong, the black BG makes this pop.
Bob

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