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02/18/2004 12:17:59 AM · #1 |
This was to be my submission for Textures... but I am a huge procrastinator :)
Plus, I could not figure out how to make it look not so dark and drab. Can anyone offer me any suggestions on how to fix this shot, and the other great macros of this flower?
Thanks for all your help!
Lor
Message edited by author 2004-02-18 00:18:47. |
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02/18/2004 12:25:01 AM · #2 |
| I think it would help if the center of the flower was in one of the thirds, not in the middle. You should also try to increase the DOF so that the bottom of the flower is in focus. To get the colors up it would help to change the background. A dark background, black should work great, it will create the illusion that the colors are brighter than they really are. |
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02/18/2004 12:25:47 AM · #3 |
Best suggestion would be to try an angled light from off to the side. The play of light and shadow would make it more dramatic and highlight the orange a little more. You could also boost the saturation of the orange, but I dont think it's too dull as it is. Could try shooting a light from underneath too, it would depend on how thick the petals are.
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02/18/2004 12:38:12 AM · #4 |
| Beautiful picture,I agree increasing the DOF would help to keep the outer petals in focus, and increasing the contrast a little would brighten it some if that is what you were wanting. |
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03/24/2004 01:39:16 AM · #5 |
The focus should be switched. Currently, what is in front is out of focus and what is in back is in focus. Since the flower is not angled, the eye will naturally wander towards sharper focus. In this case, the sharper focus(the back) is near a background spot that is not a supportive color. If you don't want to retake the shot, try and change the background color in ps and then saturate the orange. Adjusting highlights and increasing the contrast. Don't increase the contrast to much, because you will blow out the tips of the flower in an effort to reduce shadows. I think the shadows look nice in this case. Good picture.
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03/24/2004 07:09:38 AM · #6 |
I hope you don't mind me editing your flower, because I've included an edit that I produced in about a minute in Photoshop for you to compare your photo to. If you have anything against me posting an edit of your work then please contact me and I will remove it as soon as I can.
One thing to note about flowers is that they come in many different colours, so it does not matter too much if you edit the colour slightly to make them more vibrant in my opinion, other people will have different opinions. In the edit that I produced the flower has become a much more yellowy colour.
In terms of composition, as flowers are alive it helps to not have the flower completely centred a lot of the time. With a shot like this is also helps to not always show the background, so my edit has been cropped a little bit. Personally I do not like to crop and I aspire to never crop an image, but sometimes it is unavoidable.
In your particular photo slightly more depth of field would also have been helpful, as well as a little bit of fill flash just to lift the dark shadows at the bottom of the petals.
The editing that I did was as follows: --
use curves to increase mid-tone contrast and find a white and black point in the image.
Increase saturation a little bit.
use a screen overlay layer on just a shadowy areas to lift them, also add a slight orange tinge to correct for the curves earlier on.
Sharpen the image to make the out of focus sections look slightly better.
Crop the image to remove the background and provide a slightly off centre composition.
Original image by nsoroma79. |
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