Eric, I hadn't seen this redo of the lilly. Makes all the difference. Very nice composition!
Jack ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christine Aguila" <christ...@caguila.com> To: "PDML" <pdml@pdml.net> Sent: Friday, October 31, 2014 8:58:55 PM Subject: Re: Two images from a recent visit to the Atlanta Botanical Garden I agree with Bruce. Pretty colors too. Cheers, Christine Sent from my iPad > On Oct 28, 2014, at 12:44 PM, Bruce <bkday...@daytonphoto.com> wrote: > > A general comment - for both the subject comes across as being too centered. > It could be partially aspect ratio, but in any case, I would crop just a bit > somewhere to shift these. As the background in both images is not strongly > contributing, any crop would probably work. Doing that much would help. > > As for each image - I prefer the water lilly. I think partly because the > background competes less than in the crocus. Also, the lighting is more > pleasing. > > In both cases, I would really look to blurring the background more - possibly > a longer focal length and/or a more wide open shot to really get the > background to not compete with the subject. > > It is interesting to view from an ipad because you can pinch zoom and then > drag the image around to see the effects of what a crop would look like. For > the water lilly, I think cropping alone would really strengthen the shot and > end up with a very pleasing image. > > -- > Bruce > > > Sent from my iPad > >> On Oct 28, 2014, at 10:28 AM, Eric Weir <eew...@bellsouth.net> wrote: >> >> >> Autumn Crocus >> https://www.flickr.com/photos/eeweir/15405892848/in/set-72157648487798090/lightbox/ >> >> Water Lilly >> https://www.flickr.com/photos/eeweir/14971286324/in/set-72157648487798090/lightbox/ >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Eric Weir >> Decatur, GA USA >> eew...@bellsouth.net >> >> "What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, >> men would die from a great loneliness of spirit." >> >> - Chief Seattle >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
