free floating freesia

Frog Lady

took a pic of this vivid freesia from my front yard using my 50/f1.4:D Thought it came out kinda cool, looking like its floating in mid air.

C.

Frog Lady

poor lil' orphan
oh wooow is me (hand to forehead in dramatic gesture), I've got the distinct honor of having the sole orphan thread in this category for the whole month of March. My poor little freesia is feeling distinctly unloved :cry

System

c.-

shed tears no more for your poor little freesia-

the distinction of being alone and unloved is gone; 'tis an orphan no more-


yes, cool shot-

and most people go 'woe is me' if grieving; I'm not sure how upset you are when you're saying 'wow is me'-

sorry, could not pass that one up-

george

gluwater

gefillmore wrote:

and most people go 'woe is me' if grieving; I'm not sure how upset you are when you're saying 'wow is me'-

sorry, could not pass that one up-

george

Haha, I totaly missed that.

Well I think this has stayed an orphan because there in't much to really grab attention and hold it. There is very little in focus and there is a lot of empty spae at the top and bottom. I have taken plenty of shots like this of flowers, and I have thrown all of them out because in the end they aren't that interesting. Well that's my .02 I'm sure others will feel differently. I think it would have been better with a tighter crop and more DOF. It is a pretty flower, just show us more of it.

System

"Well I think this has stayed an orphan because there in't much to really grab attention and hold it."


ah, that is the lot of one without lineage; 'tis a lonely life indeed-

wholenewlight

The flower is pretty. Shoot "her" at a time of day when the background isn't as illuminated. It's fighting for attention and trying to steal the viewer's eye away from her beauty!

I like the center sharpness but the slightly soft edges to the flower.

Awais Yaqub

Nice coleen i loved the picture i was away from internet due to on going exams :cry so i was late to reply

Frog Lady

gefillmore wrote:

and most people go 'woe is me' if grieving; I'm not sure how upset you are when you're saying 'wow is me'- sorry, could not pass that one up-

george

for the life of me, I could not remember "woe" and I tried all variations and none of them looked right, so I put an extra "o" in wow, hoping people would think of it more like row, but guess it didn't work

thanks for looking at the little freesia, it doesn't feel so alone any more.

C.

Frog Lady

gluwater wrote:

Haha, I totaly missed that.

Well I think this has stayed an orphan because there in't much to really grab attention and hold it. I think it would have been better with a tighter crop and more DOF. It is a pretty flower, just show us more of it.

wholenewlight wrote:

The flower is pretty. Shoot "her" at a time of day when the background isn't as illuminated. It's fighting for attention and trying to steal the viewer's eye away from her beauty!

I like the center sharpness but the slightly soft edges to the flower.

thanks for the comments Nick and John. It's comments like these that help some of the more amateur shooters among us learn. So, even though your mama likely told you "if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say it", here I appreciate the constructive critisism that helps my photography get better.

cheers,

C.

Frog Lady

Awais Yaqub wrote:

Nice coleen i loved the picture i was away from internet due to on going exams :cry so i was late to reply

hi Awais,

thanks for the look and nice words. Hope your exams went well. It's that time at my campus too.

C.

Steve Cavigliano

Colleen,
I love your "floating in air" perspective and that is one pretty flower

Let me preface my criticism with the fact that I owned a Sony 707. People used to make fun of it's "Disney Colors" Even though I loved those "Disney Colors", the camera had one major flaw color-wise, IMHO. It clipped reds. When I first saw your flower, I had a flashback to my 707 days (or was it to those days in SE Asia?....). There is quite of bit of color clipping in your shot in the red channel I believe you have lost some petal detail because of this. You can take down the red saturation and it will help some, but you won't be able to recover lost detail unless you shot this in RAW.

Still a very nice shot and thanks for sharing it with us

Steve

System

c.-

you're a good sport-

keep posting the pics-

george

gluwater

Frog Lady wrote:

thanks for the comments Nick and John. It's comments like these that help some of the more amateur shooters among us learn. So, even though your mama likely told you "if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say it", here I appreciate the constructive critisism that helps my photography get better.

cheers,

C.

I'm glad you take the critisism constructively because that is what it is meant as. Oh and I hope to be an amateur photographer one day, maybe soon.

Frog Lady

gluwater wrote:

I'm glad you take the critisism constructively because that is what it is meant as. Oh and I hope to be an amateur photographer one day, maybe soon.

point taken Barry:D I guess an amateur "shooter" is one who just picked up a camera, while an amateur photographer knows most of the buttons to push and is learning the artistic eye of photography. So I guess I'm past the shooter stage and am, hopefully, moving into the (still amateur) photographer stage with all the great help from you all.

C.