Paul Furman wrote in
. com:
I'm not sure I like this or not:
http://www.edgehill.net/1/?SC=go.php...Area/San-Franc
isco/edgehill-garden/Nursery/plants&PG=8&PIC=45
Comments?
I think perhaps it needs to be cropped square.
It is not sharp either at 1/100 sec at 200mm with closeup lens, f/7
ISO 800 in the shade. But I guess sharpness isn't the point here.
I'm also not sure what sort of framing/matting treatment to use, it
doesn't look good with the contemporary narrow black wood frame and
white matt that I have used before.
My suggestion, both cropping and framing:
http://wading-in.net/Add/_DSC1632+3-edit.jpg
It also looks pretty good in greyscale (sans the matte). Perhaps
darkened a little in that case.
My approach to matting, if and when I do it, is often to find a
complementary color to some part of the image, but muted - this provides
accent but lets the natural colors of the image take control. In this
case, most of the colors were deep, so it seemed to call for a light
treatment.
I kind of like the approach, actually (the image itself). Most
people would have aimed for focus on the plant innards, but this way the
entire image became a bit surreal, and with very smooth gradients. I also
wonder what you would have produced with a misting bottle, both with and
without an off-camera flash to produce specular highlights.
- Al.
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