After the rain passed...

stephiewilliams · September 15, 2006

OK now I know that the really great interesting flower shots are often Macros...but here are some pictures I got yesterday while waiting on a Tennis Match rain delay. As always comments and critiques appreciated. Also this is my first shot at utilizing the "How to make it pop" series in the how to. Do these look overly PP to anyone?

Antonio Correia · September 15, 2006

Stephie,
These pictures look pretty good to me.
The colours are nice and they pop

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The water adds value

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stephiewilliams · September 15, 2006

Thanks Antonio, I appreciate your comments on this and my other post! It was the raindrops that drew me to the composition...flowers are a dime a dozen as far as I am concerned.

Brooks P · September 15, 2006

Hi Stephie,

I worked for a time next door to a wholesale florist and got to know the manager quite well. He took flower pictures everyday as part of his job. He told me to mist some water on the flower with a water bottle to give the flower a fresh dewy look. I had found that my flower shots taken right after a rain always looked the best, and the water mist helps get that same effect. Your rose looks like it is probably the same variety that I have in my yard. I am only seeing #1 and #3, #2 didn’t come up on my screen. In #3 I would have liked to see just a bit more DOF, as the rose seems to kind of fade out.

Thought I follow that tutorial on making the picture pop, but I have PSE 4.0 and it doesn’t have Curves, so I got shot down on that one. It figures that since I just bought 4.0, Adobe just announced 5.0, and 5.0 does have curves. Course the upgrade for 5.0 costs almost as much as I paid for 4.0, you just can’t win with software.

Add-on, Number two appeared when I posted my reply. I like #1 and #3 better.

Harryb · September 15, 2006

Good shots, well composed with great color.

kgarrett11 · September 15, 2006

Stephie, I really like these. I have taken some macros of flowers but always like the ones that I take that are just close up. When I go some where that I know that I will be taking pictures of flowers I try to take a mist bottle with me. I just have to be careful not to mist them too much. Your pictures have captured the full flower as well as the colors. Keep up the good work and thanks for sharing.