Flowers! (300k)
Posted: 2006-05-05 10:40pm
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I would love it if you would use it as your background (it means a lot to me that some thinks my pictures are that good). I recomend using the big version though. However, if you want I can trim and resize it down to your screen Resolution for you (for a smaller download).Mrs Kendall wrote:I love the pretty pink tulip
I think I might use that as a desktop Can I can I.. please? It's that time of year here and we have no flowers popping up in our garden yet
Okey dokey. Just asking.MariusRoi wrote:I guess you can, but I'd rather you not. I was hopint to use this as a place for me to show off.
Thanks.Pezzoni wrote:Cool shots
Yeah, I took that set at about 8 pm so the sun was already setting, and it was rainging so I didn't have a lot of ambient light.On the first set, the flash looks very harsh:
One thing I'm rather proud of is that I haven't done any editing to my images (I also don't have photoshop or paintshop pro). This will probably change over the summer as I take a photography class.you can probably adjust that in photoshop a bit by tweaking the colour balance.
Yeah, I'm limited by my camera. I'd love to get a better one, but with even my planed trip to Maine to visit my SO this summer canceled because of my car crash, it's out of the question for a while.It's also a bit of a shame about the reflections on the leaves (especially on the pink tulip), although there probably isn't that much you can do about that without either shooting without a flash (it looks dark, so no), or using a directional flash or bouncing it off somthing (compact camera, so again no).
Again, I'm limited by my camera, which doesn't let me adjust the f stop. If I ever get to use my parent's camera I might be able to do so, but I'm not sure. and I do have to say that is a great shot you have there.An other thing I'd change would be using a larger appeture (smaller f stop). This blurs the background more: in many of your pictures the background doesn't lend the shot anything in particular (red bricks, a fence etc), so there is no reason to have it in detail. A blurry background leaves the focus more on the object you're looking at (if you don't mind me posting an example, look at this). Don't go too far though: somthing I've noticed in shots I took when I first started to get to grip with appeture is that I was going all out, meaning that only tiny bits were in focus, when I actually wanted the whole subject.
Rose Bushes are something that I don't like getting a lot closer to than I did for some of the recent shots. I really need to get a good tripod.Also, try to get a bit closer in (mainly a few of the later ones where this applies)
The Rule of Thirds is useful, but I find that it can be a bitch to use properly (I was able to pull it off in the Tulip shot).Finally: Don't always have things center frame. I think it was somene on here who taught me the Rule of thirds, and it's certainly helped my photography along massively
Again, thanks. I hope you understand why I don't impliment them.Anyway, some nice pictures, and beautiful plants. I hope I've been at least vaugely helpfull