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Equipment & Techniques => Landscape & Nature Photography => Topic started by: Matt Tilghman on March 16, 2012, 12:42:41 am

Title: Tidy-tips bud
Post by: Matt Tilghman on March 16, 2012, 12:42:41 am
Hi!

Here is a photo I took tonight, because it was too rainy to go out and take any sunset pics (and I couldn't get free in time to take any forest pics).  It's of the bud of a tidy-tips wildflower, Layia platyglossa, family Asteraceae.  Hope you all don't think it's too over-done.  C&C appreciated!

(http://tilghman.smugmug.com/Landscapes/California/i-rH2NWmF/0/L/tidytipsS-L.jpg)

slightly larger version (http://www.tilghman.smugmug.com/gallery/8935629_DRk4e#!i=1751518286&k=rH2NWmF&lb=1&s=O)
Title: Re: Tidy-tips bud
Post by: EduPerez on March 16, 2012, 08:07:38 am
I think it is a nice image, does not look overdone to me; lighting is very interesting.
Title: Re: Tidy-tips bud
Post by: francois on March 16, 2012, 11:37:29 am
Very luminous… I like it!
Title: Re: Tidy-tips bud
Post by: stpf8 on March 16, 2012, 03:15:02 pm
Good colors and detail, and I like to see radial symmetry in a square frame.  I don't think it's overdone at all.  In the larger version, some background elements are very faintly visible, and I wonder if it would be better as entirely black with no detail.  I also wonder about the amount of empty black space.  I tried a version with the edges much closer to the plant, and I personally liked the more fully filled frame.