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p.1 #1 · p.1 #1 · Floral Colors

Experimenting with my newly acquired Zeiss Planar T* 50mm f/1.4 on some of my wife's beautiful flowers.

DSC_4126 by Don Sawall, on Flickr

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Don

Jun 10, 2018 at 08:00 PM

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p.1 #2 · p.1 #2 · Floral Colors

Very nice Don. You left a bit more on the right than I would have and that comes down to taste

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Jun 10, 2018 at 08:12 PM

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p.1 #3 · p.1 #3 · Floral Colors

Thank you, Morris. I appreciate your comment and love to hear ideas on how I might be able to improve

Best Wishes,
Don

Jun 10, 2018 at 08:23 PM

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p.1 #4 · p.1 #4 · Floral Colors

Nicely done Don and I agree with Morris ~ Ron

Jun 10, 2018 at 09:27 PM

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p.1 #5 · p.1 #5 · Floral Colors

Lovely shot Don !

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Jun 10, 2018 at 09:34 PM

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p.1 #6 · p.1 #6 · Floral Colors

Great shot Don!

Love the rendering of this lens.

I personally like the composition; the eye is drawn to the flower in the center that's in focus then to the right of it you have that colorful, creamy painterly bokeh.

Jun 11, 2018 at 12:05 AM

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p.1 #7 · p.1 #7 · Floral Colors

A very pleasing and relaxing image, Don. May be composition could be improved if you crop just left of that bright vertical strip on the left side. I am thinking that because that strip is the brightest part of the image and kind of pull my eyes distracting from the beauty of the flower.
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Jun 11, 2018 at 02:19 PM

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p.1 #8 · p.1 #8 · Floral Colors

Lovely shot Don !

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Thank you Birdie!

Great shot Don! Love the rendering of this lens.

I personally like the composition; the eye is drawn to the flower in the center that's in focus then to the right of it you have that colorful, creamy painterly bokeh.
Thank you, Ayas for the nice comments! As Morris mentioned above, composition boils down to personal taste. I'm pretty open minded and love to hear suggestions as well as try new things in the quest for learning. With that in mind I thought I'd try cropping the image a bit to see if it works better

DSC_4128 by Don Sawall, on Flickr

Comments welcomed and much appreciated,
Don

Jun 11, 2018 at 06:58 PM

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p.1 #9 · p.1 #9 · Floral Colors

No Regrets wrote:
A very pleasing and relaxing image, Don. May be composition could be improved if you crop just left of that bright vertical strip on the left side. I am thinking that because that strip is the brightest part of the image and kind of pull my eyes distracting from the beauty of the flower.
Socrate
Thank you, Socrate for your comments! Is this more of what you had in mind?

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1759/42026160934_436ab88a4e_b.jpg DSC_4128 by Don Sawall, on Flickr

Comments welcomed and much appreciated,
Don

Yes, Don. That is what I had in mind. Lighting up the top of the flower and darkening the bg could also help isolating the flower.

Jun 11, 2018 at 10:07 PM

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p.1 #10 · p.1 #10 · Floral Colors

Shasoc wrote:
Yes, Don. That is what I had in mind. Lighting up the top of the flower and darkening the bg could also help isolating the flower.

Hi Socrate,

Unfortunately, I don't use Lightroom or Photoshop, etc yet so I'm not sure I can play with my images in that way. All I have is my onboard iPhoto which is very basic in nature which allows me to straighten and crop, but nothing fancy. I appreciate the suggestion though

Thanks to everyone who was willing to express their thoughts and offer suggestions as to how I can improve my image.

Best Wishes,
Don

Jun 12, 2018 at 07:43 PM


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