Simple Leaves

RogersDA

This was shot using a Canon 20D and an EF-180 f/3.5L macro lens @ f/9, 1/25 sec., ISO100, and fill flash located behind and below the leaves and remotely triggered.

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KED

So simple, yet so perfect . . . Your watermark even looks good on there! I'm no expert on this type of photography, but on the subject of "perfect" I have one question: did you deliberately cut off the ends of the bottom- and right-most leaves?

leaforte

Balance is fair, but really need the bottom right and left points. You think?

RogersDA

KED wrote:

So simple, yet so perfect . . . Your watermark even looks good on there! I'm no expert on this type of photography, but on the subject of "perfect" I have one question: did you deliberately cut off the ends of the bottom- and right-most leaves?

Thanks for the comments, and yes the cut-off was deliberate. I wanted to tie-in both sides of the image with the emergence of the stem. Having only the stem protruding from the one side seemed to me to be a bit odd.

RogersDA

leaforte wrote:

Balance is fair, but really need the bottom right and left points. You think?

I played both ways with this. I think I prefer the way it is now to just having the stem protruding from the side. Thanks for the comments, too.

leaforte

Fair edit.

Travis

I'm really digging the simplicity and the balance. The use of negative space with the shallow dof really draws your attention to the sharpness of the leaves. Nice b/w conversion as well.

Skippy

RogersDA wrote:

This was shot using a Canon 20D and an EF-180 f/3.5L macro lens @ f/9, 1/25 sec., ISO100, and fill flash located behind and below the leaves and remotely triggered.

Click to view a larger version.

Nice Bokeh too David I love the simplicity of the shot.
I would like to have seen the leaves complete too.

Lovely Shot David ... Skippy
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RogersDA

Travis/Maxine: Thanks for the comments. Always appreciated!

Jack'll do

I'm just a sucker for symmetry. I really like this image. If only one leaf had been cut off, I would agree with the comments above, but here both cut off leaves are similarly shaped and oriented, approximately equally truncated, equal distance from the corner, and really seem to anchor the subject even more than the stem alone. (Shame that the stem doesn't bisect the corner, but you can't have everything! )