Paul, you are amazing, are you sure that profession involving teeth isn't just a sideline? Oh, but this was easy, you had your daughter to help!
Very nice high key, very nice image!
I just got home from transmitter hunting which is a long term hobby of mine, and thought maybe someone would have posted to my photo. What a pleasant suprise. Thanks for the kind comments. I try to do something new when I can with my photos, and this a B/W flower pictures is definately something new for me. The detail in the flower is interesting, but unfortunately not going to be seen in 640 pixels.
Caley, Thanks for the commens. I don't sleep much or well when I do. So much to do and so little time to do it.
Adam, I appreciate your kind words. I look up to photographers like you and your words echo happily in my hollow brain. The translucency was a pleasant suprise to me. Guess blazing SoCal sun bouncing off of white-white paper helps. I didn't meter the background to see how many stops higher it was, but after counting the veins in the petals visible due to backlighting, I am going to say it was a few.
Byron, I tried about 20 different B/W conversions before I settled on this one. This I picked because it left the little stamen( ?) contrasty and the petals soft. If I am remembering it was a double green filter. It was a wierd hair I had when tooling around my backyard and finding this flower and decided to shoot it high key. In color, it is not as pleasing, being a white flower against a white background, but in B/W it perks up a bit. I took an example from your book with a brave crop ( brave for me to leave that much white space ). I always look at your pictures and like your crops, but seem to have a hard time with my own.
Paul, I love the tones on this shot - it has a delicate feel to it... Really well framed and composed too. I would have made the center much darker - but I'm glad you did this one this way - the soft grey center is perfect! Bravo!
Joe
