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The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: dalethorn on April 12, 2009, 01:54:25 am

Title: Not lilypads
Post by: dalethorn on April 12, 2009, 01:54:25 am

I don't know what these are, but I think they're some kind of clumps of moss that sit on the non-flowing water in the defunct Ohio canal, South of Cleveland.

Title: Not lilypads
Post by: wolfnowl on April 12, 2009, 02:42:07 am

Not moss, algae.  Basically a group of single-celled organisms in a clump.

Kinda pretty, though.

Mike.

Title: Not lilypads
Post by: jani on April 12, 2009, 07:01:34 pm

That's interesting, and I agree with Mike's sentiment.

But I'm also struggling a bit with this one. It's not sharp, the colours appear muddier than the subject would suggest, and the contrast is fairly low.

There is a more interesting image in something other than the natural representation of the scene. I think you could try twisting the colours around and see what happens.

E.g. mess about with an inverse grayscale layer like I did:

[attachment=12968:Lilypad1b.png]

Title: Not lilypads
Post by: dalethorn on April 13, 2009, 12:01:20 am

Quote from: jani

That's interesting, and I agree with Mike's sentiment.
But I'm also struggling a bit with this one. It's not sharp, the colours appear muddier than the subject would suggest, and the contrast is fairly low.
There is a more interesting image in something other than the natural representation of the scene. I think you could try twisting the colours around and see what happens.
E.g. mess about with an inverse grayscale layer like I did:
[attachment=12968:Lilypad1b.png]

Thanks.  And this looks interesting - I would swear I've seen this in a microscope a few years ago.

Title: Not lilypads
Post by: larryg on April 13, 2009, 04:55:08 pm

might be Duckweed.   a free floating algae  


http://www.environmentalleverage.com/Duckweed.htm (http://www.environmentalleverage.com/Duckweed.htm)

Title: Not lilypads
Post by: wolfnowl on April 14, 2009, 02:05:51 am

Quote from: larryg

might be Duckweed.   a free floating algae  


http://www.environmentalleverage.com/Duckweed.htm (http://www.environmentalleverage.com/Duckweed.htm)

No, duckweed actually has a flat leaf structure to it.  I can't remember the name of the stuff in this picture, and at the moment all of my plant keys, etc. are in storage.

Mike.