Pretty in pink

• Genie

  Participant

  June 12, 2009 at 8:02 am

  My 3 year old had the chicken pox last weekend so I couldn’t get out of the house so I shot some flowers instead. :D
  C&C, as always, welcome.

  

  Thanks,

  Janine.
  5faythe

  Participant

  June 12, 2009 at 10:02 am

  Hi Janine,

  I like this a lot.
  Nice and crisp with lovely colour.

  I might have cropped a little tighter or a little wider on
  the LHS.

  The image is also a little small on screen.

  Well done.

  John.
  Genie

  Participant

  June 12, 2009 at 10:18 am

  Do you mean the bottom left hand side John? I put up the larger image and too me it just looked huge so I went for the medium.

  Thanks for commenting John,

  Janine
  5faythe

  Participant

  June 12, 2009 at 10:58 am

  Genie wrote:

  Do you mean the bottom left hand side John? I put up the larger image and too me it just looked huge so I went for the medium.

  Thanks for commenting John,

  Janine

  Hi Janine,

  You are right I didn’t explain myself very well and also it is
  not a criticism just a thought.

  I just noted that there is a little bit of background showing through
  the petals on the LHS of the frame.
  I wondered if it might be better if you shot a little wider and showed all of the
  petals or cropped a little tighter and showed none of the background.

  Of course neither of these ideas might make it better at all and as I said I think
  it’s very good as it is.

  Cheers,

  John.
  nfl-fan

  Participant

  June 12, 2009 at 12:58 pm

  The flower is good Janine.. but there’s something very unflattering, possibly harsh or too contrasty, about the bluey/black background, especially in the bottom left corner.

  There also seems to be a bluey cast in places on the green stem in the bottom right corner.

  In summary the flower is fine.. but the backdrop seems to be a strange one.
  Genie

  Participant

  June 12, 2009 at 3:45 pm

  Your right John, what it actually was is a black piece of paper from a childs colouring book! I was improvising :D I thought myself that the end of the petals had a bit of a tinge to them and I wasn’t sure what it was. It must be the black paper, I shot it in a window with no direct light.

  Thanks to both John’s for the comments, much appreciated.

  Janine
  White Russian

  Member

  June 12, 2009 at 4:52 pm

  Very nice to my eye image, crisp and soft colors.
  Only thing is distracting me is background – has to be either black or blue (I might prefer blue :) ), but not 2 colors at once.

  Natalja
  Genie

  Participant

  June 12, 2009 at 5:45 pm

  Thanks Natalja for the comments. Yeah I think its the kids colouring book that I used as a background that is throwing the picture out. Its all the one colour, but maybe the bottom bit was getting a bit more natural light than the rest.

  Thanks again fo the ocmments,

  Janine