Sunday daffodils

• sevenj

  Member

  March 19, 2009 at 11:01 pm

  This was taken on sunday- It seems a bit dark on the browser- Opinions on tonality? Thanks John

  

  Sorry- server problem had this down- thanks for your input.
  brownie

  Participant

  March 19, 2009 at 11:27 pm

  I am not going to really give any opinions on tonality
  as i think any photo of daffodils should be in colour.
  People often say that you should be able to visualise
  a picture in B&W and not all pictures look well in B&W.

  When attending the National Nature Finals in Dublin Zoo
  last year(they are on next Sunday again in the Zoo) the
  judge who i thought was very good….he was of the opinion
  that really nature subjects should be in colour as the vibrancy
  of nature is only really shown in colour…thats not to say that
  you follow so called rules like this to the bitter end..but
  sometimes it helps to think of things like this

  The photo you posted is a very nice photo..good depth of
  field, sharp in the right places, low viewpoint which really helps.
  Do you have this in colour?….would love to see it as i think it
  would be a very good entry for the RTE Weather Photo Spring
  Competition which is open at the moment for enteries but only
  i think up to this weekend…check it out on their website.

  Noel Browne.
  sevenj

  Member

  March 20, 2009 at 7:51 am

  I agree that it would have more impact in colour but I only had B/W film with me. I’m re-learning to shoot in b/w and I guess it will take time to start seeing again in monochrome. Colour in this format (4×5) is just too expensive. Thanks for your input. John
  brownie

  Participant

  March 20, 2009 at 10:44 am

  No problem John…did’nt realise it was film and 4×5.
  Good stuff then.

  Noel.
  jb7

  Participant

  March 20, 2009 at 11:19 am

  It doesn’t really matter so much what it looks like on a browser-
  most people’s browsers are different anyway, so it’s not the same as looking at it on yours-

  It’s not really apparent from this reduction that we’re looking at something from a big negative-
  and as we’re looking at it in 8 bit, we’re only seeing 256 shades of grey,
  whereas on your negative, you’re looking at subtly gradated tones.

  What we can talk about are things like lighting and composition…

  However, if you are digitizing your negs, you might look at duotoning or more,
  which might hep to put back some subtlety into your processing-

  good to see more big film being used around here-

  joseph
  MadeleineCalaidoWeber

  Participant

  March 21, 2009 at 8:56 pm

  where is the image?