Luminous Landscape Forum
The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: Bruce Cox on April 30, 2013, 04:26:14 pm
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The natural color of the subject orchid here does not work well with others. I made it black and white, but I prefer the greater definition of space this palette allows. Yes, no, maybe?
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I've always loved orchids for their rich coloration. I love black and white. These two things do not play well together for me.
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I like the B/W rendition, but I have to say I find the background distracting.
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The natural color of the subject orchid here does not work well with others. I made it black and white, but I prefer the greater definition of space this palette allows. Yes, no, maybe?
The texture of the flower is appealing. The background, though, is fussy and intrusive, and has a rather nasty green tinge.
Jeremy
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I also saw the green tinge and wondered if it was my profile. I have almost given up on shooting flower images because of the problem of cluttered backgrounds and lack of depth of field. Flower images are difficult and getting a good one, or more, takes hard work. I agree generally with the others that you haven't succeeded. Thumbs down. :'(
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I also saw the green tinge and wondered if it was my profile. I have almost given up on shooting flower images because of the problem of cluttered backgrounds and lack of depth of field. Flower images are difficult and getting a good one, or more, takes hard work. I agree generally with the others that you haven't succeeded. Thumbs down. :'(
I thank all you for your responses. I am sorry for the clutter [Stacy warned me, but... ]. I was more interested in the red, green and gray. On my monitor at home and now on this monitor, both calibrated, the picture is clearly tinted red and green with a more neutral dark base. That this is difficult for others to see [or imagine to be intentional] and even more difficult for them to like is informative.
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I also saw the green tinge and wondered if it was my profile.
I too wondered if it was my profile, or indeed the third-rate screen on my 6-year-old MacBook Pro, so I ran the Digital ColorMeter utility to check. Very handy.
Jeremy
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Years ago when I done B&W printing before the neutral ink carts were available I regularly saw the green tingeing effect on my prints that I see now on the monitor. On close inspection I see the red tingeing but the green dominates it. Are you stating that the green is an artistic effect?
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Here's my take as a red-green color deficient guy: To me it looks like a pretty good monochrome rendition, but the background is indeed distracting.
No matter how I try, I can't see any green tinge or any red tinge. But the texture in the petals is nice in monochrome.
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Years ago when I done B&W printing before the neutral ink carts were available I regularly saw the green tingeing effect on my prints that I see now on the monitor. On close inspection I see the red tingeing but the green dominates it. Are you stating that the green is an artistic effect?
I am stating that the red and green and gray together are an artistic effect. More so if I can talk you into seeing it as something which enhances the spacial reading of the image. Less so if it just makes you sick. I generally prefer fairly neutrally hued Black and White to mono chromatic tints such as Sepia because there is a wider gradient in B & W. By using tints in two arbitrary hues besides black I hoped to define the scene more fully than B & W. Maybe I have been looking at too many color gradients in PhotoShop, but I fancy that I can see more about the leaf under the flower to the left than I could with fewer hues.