Luminous Landscape Forum
Equipment & Techniques => Landscape & Nature Photography => Topic started by: Justan on May 04, 2012, 11:45:39 am
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A couple of weeks back the Mt. Vernon area held their annual flower festival, an amazing display of flowers and cultivation skills.
(http://justan-elk.com/Images/Landscapes/FarmAndDaffodils1.jpg)
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(http://justan-elk.com/Images/Landscapes/FarmAndDaffodils2.jpg)
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(http://justan-elk.com/Images/Landscapes/PinkTulips-1.jpg)
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(http://justan-elk.com/Images/Landscapes/Multi-Colored-Tulips-1.jpg)
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(http://justan-elk.com/Images/Landscapes/1-flower_Panorama1.jpg)
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Isaac,
Thanks for taking the time to reply.
> Apart from acknowledging the large area of yellow, I didn't seem to look at that mass of daffodils - so FarmAndDaffodils2 was more interesting than FarmAndDaffodils1 because there's more distinct stuff along that far boundary with the daffodils.
I was hoping to get feedback on which composition was better received. Other than the viewpoint, the other distinctive feature between the 2 is that in one image the flowers were sharpened substantially while the other added blur.
> Multi-Colored-Tulips-1 seems to work better from the mid-ground into the distance, the foreground yellow blooms seem to blur together.
Wish I had a big stopper ND filter for this one. Since I didn’t I went for the highest f stop and slowest shutter I could get in daylight, and the resulting mush was aided by a tad of PP blur.
For reasons unobvious to me, many women love the pink tulips composition and the early bloomer (1-flower-panorama) is a close second, though it doesn’t have a strong as a gender based response as does pink tulips.
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Justan
Don't usually drop into this section, but I do like your last shot very much; apart from a pleasing composition/crop, nice to see somebody saying the hell with infinite depth of field at last! Makes it so much stronger and to the point.
Rob C
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Justan
Don't usually drop into this section, but I do like your last shot very much; apart from a pleasing composition/crop, nice to see somebody saying the hell with infinite depth of field at last! Makes it so much stronger and to the point.
Rob C
Thanks!
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> Now I look for that, I can easily see that difference. afaict I barely glance at the mass of daffodils - I skip right across that field and start examining what isn't a field of daffodils.
It’s interesting to me how people see these. In one case someone said that they thought the buildings were a distraction and focused on the flowers & sky.
Also, a lot of what creates impact for these is scale. When reduced enough to be tolerable for web based viewing, they are at a small fraction, maybe 1/10th of the intended size. I think that drastically alters how people see the works.
> I can see that composition has a likeable swathe of pink and blue, and without the presence of other details like farm buildings I guess it's easier to put our own feelings into the picture - in that sense it's the more open ended picture.
Getting the viewer to project something of themself into the image is the grandest goal of all. Not that I have any knowledge of the skills to achieve this goal, but where in many cases a simple subject is what people tend to like, in this case it is the variations of a theme that serves the goal.
> And, on reflection, being a more open ended picture is quite a strength - perhaps a strength I don't appreciate enough ;-)
> (Perhaps that's also the case with the early bloomer - although the bloom seems small and far away.)
Very thoughtful comments. Thanks!