Lupine Top + Repost

Gallery: FloraPosted January 28, 201892 views8 comments

This is the top of a lupine in bloom western Maine late June. I chose to do a close-up of the top only to give a good look at the delicate petals.

Nikon D5300
300mm
ISO 800
F 6/3
shutter speed 800

Comments

8 comments

Comment posted by Yun Gao on January 29, 2018 at 11:40 PM

Nice bloom, Norma. I like the beautiful colors in the petals. I might be tempted to crop this to square.

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Comment posted by Bill Fach on January 30, 2018 at 12:09 PM

Norma: Interesting comp of one of my favorite flowers. I can see the square crop suggestion but this works for me as is. Really nice specimen superbly captured and rendered.>=))>

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Comment posted by Giuseppe Guadagno on January 31, 2018 at 10:26 AM

What I love more is the color contrast with the BG. Have you tried a vertical frame?

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Comment posted by Jim Zablotny on January 31, 2018 at 3:57 PM

Hi Norma,

Tighten the crop for a square format and that is my only suggestion. Otherwise, the exposure and BG are very nice with subject showing up well in the frame......................Jim

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Comment posted by Philip Hodgkins on January 31, 2018 at 4:06 PM

I can see an even tighter crop from horizontal to vertical, not so much as changing the presentation of the lupine as changing the influence of the background. The LHS of the BG has a less than attractive black space. The Lupine is quite pretty, but needs a little more presence, which a judicious crop might give it.

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Comment posted by Norma Tareila Matl on February 3, 2018 at 3:18 PM

Here is the cropped version.

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Comment posted by Philip Hodgkins on February 8, 2018 at 3:20 PM

The repost is significantly better! The lupine really jumps out at one. cool

leaving out the black border also helped.
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I added to the title so others would know of the change.

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Comment posted by Bill Fach on February 10, 2018 at 12:07 PM

Norma: Nice work on the repost. I do think it's an improvement but I still like the original. Well done.>=))>

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