hand it over (flower picture)

[sweetdeal22]

Again, another picture from my first 35mm shooting. (kinda hard holding a camera in one hand and a flower in the other... especially when you have a relatively slower shutter speed)


comments?

[Lava Lamp]

Again, another picture from my first 35mm shooting. (kinda hard holding a camera in one hand and a flower in the other... especially when you have a relatively slower shutter speed)


comments?

Has character. This is interesting to me, becuase as a documentary shot of the flower, it's not great. As you've pointed out, it's not too sharp. But aside from that, it has an artsy kind of feel that I can't easily define. The trick, maybe, is too know what that feel is and to be able to pull it out of your bag of tricks when you want to.

[sweetdeal22]

Thanks Lava,
for some reason i keep getting drawn into this picture, and im not compeletly sure why

[gahspidy]

Jessica, I can understand why you would be drawn back to this one and not willing to let it go. I have many of those . While I do think the lack of anything sharp here is hurting the image, i feel somewhat like LavaLamp in that there is an artsy feel to this that can make the lack of sharpness almost irrelevant to the feel of it. I find the composition is appealing in the hand extending from the lower left corner and the flower brought up into the upper right area. I'm not sure if I like the yellow cast on the hand.

[GB1]

Jessica. Not bad there. Very hard to shoot something in your own hand, esp with a shallow DOF (and slow shutter speed). The softness doesn't bother me to much... sort of seems like a 60s album cover, or impressionist.

I don't think the background does it justice... Just for fun, I copied and pasted it on a pastel background. I think it might work a little better (?)

GB

[dbutler]

The lack of sharpness does bother me, but I think it's because my eyesight is so poor that I always want things to be in focus (most of my shots, however, are not!). I do like the comp and I like what GB did with it (though I'd prefer it with fewer jagged edges ).

[sweetdeal22]

thanks for the comments you guys

this is how the picture looked like to my eye when i took the picture, the wall in my room is purple... and almost the color you used for the background. But the lighting skewed the photo giving it a yellow cast.