p.1 #1 · Rain Flowers....need your honest feedback
Took a stab at the garden flowers during a drizzle last evening....thought the picture came out good and did processing in Picasa (just boosted shadows and added sharpening - don't have PS on my laptop). How do you like this? Could I have done something different or processed differently?
Here is the EXIF:
D300/18-200mm lens at 200mm tripod mounted
ISO400 (could have boosted ISO to 800 but wanted to reduce noise as much as I can)
F5.6
1/8 sec (due to little light during rain)
Appreciate your feedback...also, please feel free to post any deviations/alternatives to the posted picture.
p.1 #2 · Rain Flowers....need your honest feedback
Looks very good, I might tone down the green in the upper right and along the mid right side. Maybe the bright leaf on the left side as well. Very nicely done.
p.1 #3 · Rain Flowers....need your honest feedback
Thank you Ben. Was waiting very curiously for input :-). I went back and forth on exposing the backdrop (Greens you mentioned) but thought if I avoid the greens, it would seem to floaty for the flowers on the black...but here is the updated version with your feedback taken...took a crude vignetting approach (as picasa gives very limited option on how to apply this action) and here is what I got....
p.1 #4 · Rain Flowers....need your honest feedback
Hi, maybe too much. I would have done it in Photoshop with a darker layer and simply brushed over the bright places. I am not sure I like what the vignette did to he lower right corner.
p.1 #6 · Rain Flowers....need your honest feedback
Agree with you guys! I thought the same on the vignetting, didn't do good for the pic...will have to take this to the home computer to finish what Ben suggested.
p.1 #7 · Rain Flowers....need your honest feedback
Beautiful.
Well-positioned, composed with beautiful color, fine detail.
A tad of vignette finishes it further. However in the upper right corner I like the soft, pale echoing shapes of the leaves and dont think you gain anything by vignetting that out. Even though that would be my instinctive move.
Scott
p.1 #8 · Rain Flowers....need your honest feedback
Hey Scott...those were very encouraging comments, thank you! Looking at Ben's latest pic, I think what you are suggesting is inline with Ben/Rusty suggested as well....I didn't like the complete black without background details and will leave the soft,pale shapes....i didn't had a chance to get on my home computer to do this (PS is installed there)...with 2 kids + WIFE, you won't get the time all you wanted...:-)
p.1 #9 · Rain Flowers....need your honest feedback
Selectively boosting the exposure gamma and slightly dropping the exposure to darken some of the green parts and the unfortunate brown twig/stem could give it even more punch.
