Ikebana #7

Beautiful arrangement Gary. Excellently nested in the frame. The black BG fit very well to the overall image, Well done.!!

Strikingly beautiful, Gary ! I can see nothing problematic in the lighting or the bg - quite the reverse. The strength of the colours reminds me in a curious way, despite the ground colour, of Japanese porcelain.

The colors of the chosen flowers really compliment the arrangement, Gary. Particularly the two pink flowers framed by the red.
Colors and exposure look good on my monitor, no noticeable detail in the BG. Superb shot!

Well the diffuser works well along with the black BG to absorb some more of the light. Good progress. I'm glad of the explanation of the arrangement and the fatsia. When I first saw the thumb nail I said to myself what has Gary done here. Works really well. I like this arrangement very much. I'm looking at this image on my iPad right now and it looks good to me. I don't see any creases. There has been some discussion about IE9 and colour profiles and rendering. Are you using it??

Your best to date Gary. I particularly like the arrangement because it seems to have enough space in it and doesn't appear to be cluttered at all. The bowl works perfectly and this represents a huge improvement in the lighting and the bg. On my Safari browser on the Mac everything looks perfect.

My understanding is that all the main browsers (IE8, Firefox. Safari, Chrome) default to a gamma of 2.2 and use the SRGB color space. My best guess is that it's not the browser that's the problem but rather the display settings on the monitor. I don't actually know of anyway to adjust brightness in Firefox or Safari.

This is a beautiful arrangement and image. No nits.

pat

I like the arrangement, lighting, and BG. Very nice. As you noted, the black fatsia covering the gerbera does detract from the image itself.

wonderful arrangement,Gary...colors and bg. are o.k. at my monitor, the light is perfect...thanks for your explanation to the black fatsia...very fine work!!!

Brigitte

Gary: My first view of this is on my laptop and I can see the creases in the BG. However I'm not bothered by them at all although I know you don't want them there. I actually think they add interest . Now I have had similar issues when using a black BG or when shooting with deep shadows as the BG in the wild. There will often be some pixels that are not pure black and I often don't see them in the image unless I tilt the laptop screen and they show up. I've dealt with this in a couple of ways. But before I apply any remedy I run the cursor over the questionable parts of the image and observe the RGB values to see how black the area really is. I've included a screen shot of taking your image into PS. I did a color sample on a number of the light spots in the BG. As you can see there are some values at the selected spots. You can fix this by either going to the lightest spot and with either a curves or levels adjustment designating this as your black point or you could merely paint black over the offending areas. As for the image itself I agree with Pat that this is your best. Superbly crafted in concept, capture and presentation. >=))>

Looks great on Firefox! The lighting is superb.

A beautiful arrangement and exposure, Gary. Everything else said here is over my head.

To a layman's eye it looks wonderful - the only issue has already been highlighted already (the Fatsia related). I have mixed feeling about that golden semi circle highlight on the vase - seems to draw my eye there a little bit.

Background looks fine on all my computers

Thanks everyone for your comments. I use Chrome as the browser on both windows and mac machine. On IE the color rendition is not as good. I am glad most of you did not find any problem viewing this image but I suspect most of you have calibrated monitors.

Bill:
Thanks for taking the trouble to analyse the image in PS and your suggestions to fix this problem. Will do this for the archival copy.

Hi Gary If more people did beautiful floral arrangements like this, there would be more peace in this world. the image has a feeling of sereneness to it .love the detail and color. great work
Albert Darmo
Canada

Gary, wonderful comp! The detail is amazing and the placement of the flowers is just fine in my opinion.

This is a very beautiful arrangement and image. Great processing Gary.

Which problems Gary? I would have a lot of problems like these. It's just a beautiful photo, for me.
Take care.

OH MY, this is sweet Gary. Superbly designed, composed and captured. Simply wonderful.
Bob

The arrangement & lighting is spot on Gary, Top Notch to say the least

i can see absolutely no problems on my screen here

Another marvelous arrangement and the lighting is superb. Excellent work!