Pink 6-inch Calla Lily from the local grocery store. Shot indoors hand-held in black and white mode. Light source: 20W table lamp.
Cropped, added border and converted to black monotone in Photoshop. Took many shots from many angles before I landed on this one. Even though it is not sharply in focus, I prefer this soft feel. Almost looks like a clay sculpture.
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I know that calla lilies have texture but this shot is so soft and/or out of focus that I can't see any texture, just looks soft and fuzzy to me, color may have helped
Gosh, you're going to get a bunch of out-of-focus comments, I guess. There is a kind of 1920's still life photography kind of look to this, though I'd suggest it's about fading of light more than it's about texture. Your cropping lets that feel down though - excluding the top of the flower, and cutting off the other in the background: I think you'd at least score higher if you'd included both, and allowed some progression of focus within the image - this way, the rear flower looks like an accident.
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Its a nice picture ...
But - there is no texture to be seen, the petals are out of focus and there is some noise in the picture - possibly due to high ISO.
really grainy. I like the soft focus, it works well here, but I'm not really clicking with this shot. there is something that is not holding my interest. maybe if it were just the front flower, but I'm thinking that the rear flower is taking away something from the shot. black and white works well with the soft focus. ~Heather~
Soft focus makes for a dreamy appearance, but could use something actually in sharper focus to catch my eyes attention as the subject of this shot and add to flower's surface texture.
The texture here is not a subject feature, but a high ISO settings. To me it´s don´t meet the challenge. You do a great job despite of all I like this picture, but can vote it against my judge.
I love the composition on this, and the bw really gives it an interesting twist. I do think, however, that the soft focus (while normally effective for shots like this) kinda hurts since it is a "texture" challenge, and the texture isn't real obvious, to me.
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