A Red Rose (sorry only one pic)

ScarySquirrel · 3 Jul 2007 at 22:31

I got my tripod and remote shutter today and was really chuffed with it. I went for a Velbon Ultra Luxi F and so far really please. A few niggles about the twist legs but all in all I like it.

Only one shot but I can't be bothered to work on the rest right now. I think I overdid the PP a bit but let me know what you think.

ScarySquirrel · 3 Jul 2007 at 22:51

AndyBorzi said:
I really like that, great colour and sharpness with the right amount of softness (if you know what I mean!! lol)

very very minor, a few spots on the rose in the top left could be cloned/healed out.

Cheers dude. I missed those ones. There were a lot of spots on the right hand side which I fixed but I missed the ones on the left

ScarySquirrel · 4 Jul 2007 at 08:05

wow thanks guys for all the positive comments.

I haven't even taken the tripod out of the flat (these roses are in a vase in the sitting room) but already I am loving it. You get so much more time to play with settings to get what you want and a longer exposure really makes a difference

Thanks again

ScarySquirrel · 4 Jul 2007 at 08:38

I am not so keen on this one but thought I would post it anyway for C&C

ScarySquirrel · 4 Jul 2007 at 09:00

The_KiD said:
Too much going on at the top in this one, if if was just the big beads of water towards the bottom, then that would be better I think.

Yeah I see what you're saying. I was using this spray can of water which unfortunately gives more like a misty of water, resulting in loads of little beads of water rather than the 1 or 2 big ones I actually wanted.

ScarySquirrel · 4 Jul 2007 at 13:49

No I haven't tried that. I didn't think of trying to dab off some of the water.

I will probabaly try a few more shots tonight if the flowers are still fresh

ScarySquirrel · 4 Jul 2007 at 19:24

Cheers dude.

I have done a couple more, sorry it is much of the same thing.
They look much better in PS, but when I upload them they seem darker and not as good

Is there any reason to this?

Anyway here they are:

I will probably re-do the PP on these so the colours are more like the first image.

ScarySquirrel · 4 Jul 2007 at 22:16

Shimmyhill said:
The first pic is technically good but it does nothing for me, the spiral on its own would work better IMO. The spiral seems to be in the wrong place in the shot to draw me in.

Rule of thirds baby

ScarySquirrel · 5 Jul 2007 at 10:28

Nicos Rex said:
I really like the first shot.

Nicely judged composition, verges on the abstract, I LOVE the few imperfections that have not been retouched out, they save the whole shot - without them it would have seemed too perfect to be true.

For my taste, the shots with the water drops are too contrived and hackneyed. Perhaps a really tight crop on the last one just on the petal with the water drops on it may be better - the DoF is not deep enough for both the droplets and the centre of the flower.

Thanks for bringing up the depth of field.

It was my understand that it was mostly the aperture that controlled the DOF, these shots are at F22 and I thought having it at that meant you got a larger DOF, but I was struggling to get it all in focus. Does the long shutter speed mean the DOF is more shallow?

Thanks for comments.

ScarySquirrel · 5 Jul 2007 at 11:06

I did try using it but it just went very dark because I was using F22. SO I couldn't actually see what was in focus.

Would you suggest maybe taking the pic from further away and simply cropping it then in this situation?

ScarySquirrel · 5 Jul 2007 at 19:05

Freezing it sounds like an awesome idea. Not sure my GF would be too happy though as they are hers. Might ask if I can just use one of them though

ScarySquirrel · 5 Jul 2007 at 20:58

Shimmyhill said:
Doesn't make a picture look right, to me it doesn't work. As i say technically it is very good but it does not draw me into the picture.

This is my personal critique !

Oh.