A study of yellow---comments and critiques welcome

Interesting pics, Leigh. I liked #2 here best because it is the most eye catching. The first one is cute, but to me it would have been better to have one, not two subjects. It's hard to combine two features effectively. Maybe a closer crop on the grasshopper would be fun.

I'd like the last one better if it had a greater DOF.

Hope this helps.

Virginia
aka beaucamera

 

While the little grasshopper does fight with the center of the flower for attention I think it is really cute. The colors and the crop on the second image are right on and I like it a lot. I really see what you were trying to accomplish artistically with the last image but to me you have some things working against you. I feel you have included too much; i.e., try holding a paper over the right 1/3 of the image and see what you think. Also, it lacks a vibrance that could easily be brought up with further processing. Try just a tad more contrast and suppress the green channel saturation a little. These are just a few of my thoughts for what they are worth. All in all a good photo outing for you and I can see you are learning every day.

 

Good shots.

What was the weather like when you shot these ? The light appears to be a bit "flat" so I'm guessing it wasn't sunny.
On the second one, if you could re-shoot it from marginlly to the right - it might "tidy up" that loose stamen (if that's the term) that appears on the left hand side behind the petal.

I'm very guilty of accidentally including stalks of grass or the odd pylon when I'm shooting, but that's why I love digital photography - you just shoot again !

 

Leigh, this may not be what you intended for your image but I have given it my rendition for you to look at and see what you think. By the time I got through cropping it the image was pretty small. It would have been better if I could have worked with the full JPEG.

 

When you are shooting a bright yellow flower in full sun, keep in mind what the meter is trying to do to your image; i.e., make it a medium grey. That is the same thing that happens when people photograph snow and when they see their image it comes out grey looking. To compensate for that increase your exposure by a full f stop and push the bright yellow from grey (the meter) to bright yellow. Try it you will like it. That is especially true when the bright yellow covers the full frame.

 

Leigh one thing I learned from a friend when shooting these types of pics is to use a tripod if you can. You will notice a huge difference in sharpness. I drink too much coffee to have steady hands.

 

Think i'll build you a new computer, one thats faster in capture and PSCS so you can work with the channels more effectively Leigh.

How's a dual Xeon sound to you?

 

I think that in pic #1, the idea of a tiny grasshopper being overwhelmed by the size of the flower makes it visually interesting.

#2 is very striking, also.

 

Patrick, I thought that dual xenon was for my office? just kidding. Though I'll have to admit, What she could do with it is far prettier than what we do.

 

Hi Leigh,

Nice pictures indeed. The green grasshopper in #1 is a little touch needed to attract viewer's eyes to the whole picture. Nicely done.

I'm neither a good artist (nor a good photographer) but IMHO. the #3 shows your very promising potential to see forms in subjects. That's one of the qualities of an artistic photographer. Develop that quality and soon we'll see in this forum an emerging artist.