All are beauties Karl. My picks are 2 & 7.

Morris

your flower shots are quite impressive

Georgeous series Karl
2) I like the soft diagaonal comp here along with the colors too
5) detail and color are wondorful - can almost smell it throught the monitor
7 through 10 are all just plain wonderful to veiw. Lighting and texure are killer on these. I think 7 is my favorite for its sweet micro-contrast and background.

JayT

Morris- I thank you for the picks and the nice words Morris

Randy- Glad they caught your eye Randy, thanks for commenting.

JayT- Thanks buddy for telling me what you too see, very intersting because often I am not sure what draws me to a comp or floral shot, seem more instinctive but often without reason if that makes sense Many thanks on the PM too

Thanks much for the kind comments
Karl

Superb set, Karl, great color, detail, framing throughout - that can't be easy to pull off with the Big Boy. It sure delivers the BG - fine work -

Seems every now and then I dive into a floral outing
There was a time Karl I seem to remember when you only did flora here
But what a beautiful set of pics with the 500. Wonderful and vibrant colors, super comps and bg too. In the first one the back of the flower looks as good as many fronts. One would hardly know its the back the way the leaves are curling around the back there. Super comps on # 2 the way the flower level starts off at the right and fades downwards to the left. In # 4 its from L to R and thats a beautiful rose and comp too. Lilies are not easy but you did a great job on them. I like your choice of F number and I think I read that Chad uses 7.1 a lot and I am trying that out more myself. Speaking of Chad maybe you could fill me in on the Chad Action you refer to?
Cheers buddy,
Martin

Who's Chad

1. Looks like you've clones something on the bottom left of screen. Very distracting.
If it's not due to cloning than ........... Well something is still distracting

2. Yellow stem of Far right is a bit odd

3. Pedals in the foreground ............ Ruines it for me

4. Strongest image of the post IMHO............ But it's to pink and feminine........... Reminds me of Chad

5. Flower on Bottom Right keeps pulling my eye off of the main subject. And the extra blossoms (Unblossomed blossoms) kind of ruin it for me

6. I like it but the angle of the flower and the yellow saturation leave me having a tough time finding the primary and main focal point. I hope that makes sense. But the center of the flora and stems look over saturated in yellows maybe? My eyes struggle when looking at the center of the flora..............

7. I like this one too. No real nitz but wonder if you could have taken a different angle to hide or give less focus to the extra stem on the top left?

8. Looks over sharpened to me. Darn thing almost looks like it's brittle and about to break

9. Nice but you cropped out one of the pedals ......... Hey is it OK to do that? That's like clipping a bird wing!!

10................. You clipped the wing again ................ Were they moving to fast for you? Darn flora moves pretty quick doesn't it buddy



OK these are nice images. But just my WHIT Nitz buddy!!

Probably the best and most critical critique of all the comments but I thought you might want at least one really good critique

All in all nice job but still some area for improvement.

Now please send a critique fee payable to Anthony Whitmore

Karl, this is such a beautiful series. The roses and the lilies all have an artistic free flowing feel to them if that makes sense. Beautiful work. And the first is mesmerizing. I keep going back to it and love the look.

A very beautiful flower set Karl. The back-grounds are really perfect also

Karl,
The title works great for these images,
what a burst of color and nice back grounds.

Tim

Hi Karl,
These are real wonderful shots. The lighting is good w/ nice shadows and details. My top picks are 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9. The comps in 1, 2, and 3 don't work for me but I love everything else.
dan

David- Good to hear from you and thanks much for the praise. Take care and get healed up buddy

Martin- Thanks Martin, obviously I enjoy both the flowers and the birds, the birds take a great deal more of my time though. Thanks for telling it as you see it, I too liked #1. Check with 'Chad' on the action

Maggie- I am always smiling when I look at your avatar Thanks for your interpretive artistic view, I was hoping to hear from you on these. The roses were a bit of a comp challenge for me, glad you liked them Thanks on #1 being #1.

Lars- Thanks for the floral visit and the kind comment Lars, appreciate that buddy.

Tim- Glad you saw them this way Tim, thanks for the kind words.

DannO- Thanks for the picks Danno, at least they outnumbered the ones that didn't work Welcome back!

Thanks to everyone.....
Karl

Fireworks are more manly being based on chemicals and explosives and loud sounds and outrageous displays of light and sparks and stuff. Flowers is blechy at best but I guess since you decided to concentrate on blech flowers blech they are good for what they are

Zm

anthony whitmo wrote:

1. Looks like you've clones something on the bottom left of screen. Very distracting.
If it's not due to cloning than ........... Well something is still distracting

Yes and yes

2. Yellow stem of Far right is a bit odd
Not sure what you mean, it is as shot

3. Pedals in the foreground ............ Ruines it for me
Picture looking down a long row of these Dahlia's and there being one at the end with a grass area behind it by 15ft but too high an angle brings the concrete sidewalk into the shot, low and some oof foreground but in a very soft way

4. Strongest image of the post IMHO............ But it's to pink and feminine........... Reminds me of Chad


5. Flower on Bottom Right keeps pulling my eye off of the main subject. And the extra blossoms (Unblossomed blossoms) kind of ruin it for me
Not aloud to trim the flowers here at this garden LMAO, however cloning the lower right I thought would leave too much void not to mention a possible poor cloning job.......again I felt it balanced the oof flowers behind the subject.

6. I like it but the angle of the flower and the yellow saturation leave me having a tough time finding the primary and main focal point. I hope that makes sense. But the center of the flora and stems look over saturated in yellows maybe? My eyes struggle when looking at the center of the flora..............
It's not yellow

7. I like this one too. No real nitz but wonder if you could have taken a different angle to hide or give less focus to the extra stem on the top left?
A rather difficult area to isolate a single bloom with out picking up surrounding stems and blooms. Always room to improve though buddy!

8. Looks over sharpened to me. Darn thing almost looks like it's brittle and about to break
Interesting that this looks oversharp?

9. Nice but you cropped out one of the pedals ......... Hey is it OK to do that? That's like clipping a bird wing!!
Yep

10................. You clipped the wing again ................ Were they moving to fast for you? Darn flora moves pretty quick doesn't it buddy
There was another one trying to get into the picture



OK these are nice images. But just my WHIT Nitz buddy!!

Probably the best and most critical critique of all the comments but I thought you might want at least one really good critique

All in all nice job but still some area for improvement.

Now please send a critique fee payable to Anthony Whitmore



Nice critique, some good points and some things noticed that others didn't or didn't find bothersome. I think we could be even up on detailed critiques, though I do owe you some quality nits now LMAO buddy!
Thanks for the time spent and voicing your opinion..........
Karl

Thank you for the PM tip Karl as I did not see this post. I have been very busy with the ospreys and trying to get the info on all the young to the Audubon for their count and the weather is not helping. I have to say in my very limited knowledge of flowers other than poison ivy that these look very nice. Now the water droplets, did you spray them? as even I know that part for better looks. By the way have you seen this new macro lens from Nikon? I sent it to Terry and he went APE and his scream all the way here could be heard of I want one. This is a very nice post Karl and BTW also I just talked to my dealer about a 24 to 70 2.8 Canon L glass so maybe I might get into this close stuff a little more,
Lou
http://www.mir.com.my/rb/photography/companies/nikon/nikkoresources/zoomsMF/12001700mm.htm

lbuscher wrote:
Thank you for the PM tip Karl as I did not see this post. I have been very busy with the ospreys and trying to get the info on all the young to the Audubon for their count and the weather is not helping. I have to say in my very limited knowledge of flowers other than poison ivy that these look very nice. Now the water droplets, did you spray them? as even I know that part for better looks. By the way have you seen this new macro lens from Nikon? I sent it to Terry and he went APE and his scream all the way here could be heard of I want one. This is a very nice post Karl and BTW also I just talked to my dealer about a 24 to 70 2.8 Canon L glass so maybe I might get into this close stuff a little more,
Lou
http://www.mir.com.my/rb/photography/companies/nikon/nikkoresources/zoomsMF/12001700mm.htm

Oh my Lou, you sent that to Terry That may even be too rich for his blood! My that lens is a monster, meaning it really scares me Lou, I think you want a little more reach for the florals, also the length gives you a nicer BG too most of the time. I think the 70-200 range zoom may be nice especially one with a close MFD or macro mode. I really liked my Canon 300 for flowers and dragonflies, I think it was 5-6ft MFD> Also the Canon 100mm macro is one fine piece of glass!
Thanks for the kind words my friend.............

Karl

Nice critique, some good points and some things noticed that others didn't or didn't find bothersome. I think we could be even up on detailed critiques, though I do owe you some quality nits now LMAO buddy!
Thanks for the time spent and voicing your opinion..........
Karl


Ummm I think I still owe you

Your still waaaaaaaaay up on my on the nitz
So your still in for many many many MANY more

Whitmo Nitz my friend

Karl-beautiful telephoto floral shots-perfect.
Cheers
Harry

Beautiful, Karl! My one favorite is 4, 5, 6, 7, & 8.

anthony whitmo wrote:


Nice critique, some good points and some things noticed that others didn't or didn't find bothersome. I think we could be even up on detailed critiques, though I do owe you some quality nits now LMAO buddy!
Thanks for the time spent and voicing your opinion..........
Karl


Ummm I think I still owe you

Your still waaaaaaaaay up on my on the nitz
So your still in for many many many MANY more

Whitmo Nitz my friend




Well Mr Nitzmore, if you want nits then you gotta post up buddy! And you can't post and say 'not my best shots' 'these are crap' or 'hardly any PP' you gotta go for it again!
I'll give you a week off, then let 'em rip with no excuses, not even Canon just adjusted these and they are way off or something silly like that

Love ya buddy, have a nice visit with your daughter, hope she brings her P&S and shows you how its done!
Karl the Nit Witt

Kingfishphoto wrote:
Karl-beautiful telephoto floral shots-perfect.
Cheers
Harry

Hello Harry! Thanks for the visit and nice comments, telephotofloral, hmmmm, new word to use
Karl

Ernie Aubert wrote:
Beautiful, Karl! My one favorite is 4, 5, 6, 7, & 8.

Ernie, that is nice to hear buddy, thanks for the review Hope your floral work is coming along nicely too Thanks you much for commenting!
Karl

#6 is a stunner!