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The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: spbimages on May 03, 2010, 07:30:02 pm

Title: Tulips
Post by: spbimages on May 03, 2010, 07:30:02 pm

Most photos of tulips are in color but I thought that this one looked good in softer brown tones.

Comments welcome,

Steve

Title: Tulips
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on May 03, 2010, 09:17:17 pm

Nice sense of luminosity. It works for me.

Eric

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Post by: KirbyKrieger on May 04, 2010, 12:01:30 am

Agree with Eric.  Need to see it larger.  Not sure the top-most tulip understood the compositional needs, though.

Title: Tulips
Post by: Colorwave on May 04, 2010, 03:27:58 am

Quote from: KirbyKrieger

Not sure the top-most tulip understood the compositional needs, though.

LOL
Steve was obviously working with garden variety, untrained tulips that didn't grasp composition well.  Excellent job, though.  I think the tones work quite nicely, and are an unexpected touch for such colorful subject matter.  If it was me, I'd probably delete the right hand tulip (content aware delete in CS5:  yesssss!), and perhaps edit the top tulip, but it works quite well as it is, just picking nits.  I think it would make a lovely large print.

Title: Tulips
Post by: francois on May 04, 2010, 05:49:16 am

I like it, even with the unruly tuplip on the left. The shape of the bouquet seems to cradle the light source. Well done!

Title: Tulips
Post by: Christoph C. Feldhaim on May 04, 2010, 06:34:30 am

Very nice image.
I feel supported in my personal thesis, that color in most cases disturbs more than  it helps.
I also agree with the warm toning.
Thanks for sharing!

Title: Tulips
Post by: spbimages on May 04, 2010, 11:33:12 am

Thanks for all the comments.