Flowers?

• MartyS

  Participant

  September 18, 2007 at 6:22 pm

  Would like to learn how to take good pics of flowers – here’s a couple a tried – C&C welcome especially in terms of composition

  

  

  Thanks
  M
  sean1098

  Member

  September 18, 2007 at 6:43 pm

  I’m just learning myself,i like the first one better,it’s brighter.

  I have been told that,alot of it is manipulation afterwards.i have tried this with cropping,and it seems to work if you have a high pixel camera.”10.2 etc”

  Mind you that’s just what i have been told.
  Some of the experts will fill you in shortly.

  Sean.
  jb7

  Participant

  September 18, 2007 at 6:49 pm

  Hi Marty-

  First things first-
  pictures of flowers are exercises in colour and geometry-
  (at one level, anyway)
  and the colour in both could be a lot better-
  the red channel in the first is off the scale,
  which loses the detail that makes up the geometry-
  Its just not there anymore-

  The colour in the second has gone the other direction-
  you’ve retained the texture in the petals,
  but it seems quite flat overall-

  Have a look at the RGB levels for both-

  If you’re working from raw,
  you may be able to re-process, and reduce exposure for the first-

  If you get the colour right,
  you might find that the composition improves too-

  Hope this helps in some way-

  j
  MartyS

  Participant

  September 19, 2007 at 7:44 am

  Thanks for hints guys

  JB I shot them in raw so I’ll try and reprocess to improve them

  Cheers
  M
  Noely F

  Participant

  September 19, 2007 at 11:58 am

  Great potential for these images, very hard to balance colour in bright sunlight, flowers are best shot on a bright cloudy day. :wink: