03-15-2023, 12:58 PM
Hi Lorell and Rich, and thank you for your complimentary reactions to my photo.
Lorell, my neighbor has a growth of Morning Glories this same color. I've probably taken hundreds of photos of them, but none as good as yours. In addition to what Rich noted, I'll add that a most impressive aspect of your image is how well you handled the greens. Had they been intensely and vividly colored, they would have stolen attention from the star of the image. But the dark, neutralized green in your photo works perfectly - enough variation in hue and value and detail to be interesting, but definitely in a subordinate role. I suppose you could have just gotten lucky, but I have to believe you made some adjustments based on your always sound artistic sense.
Rich, Mother Nature performed the magic, not I. It would have been difficult to take a bad photo of what she presented to me.
I agree that the neutral gray background of my image works well, and it probably looks as if I desaturated it for a selective color effect. But other than the lower left corner (this was a somewhat gold color with areas of green grass growing up through the street and I immediately it felt was out of place with the rest of the image) and the upper left branch that Rich mentioned, I did no desaturation. I did slightly boost magenta saturation of the flowers in my COI (near the lower left Rule of Thirds hot spot), but I tried hard not to overdo this. Maybe I'm finally learning to practice restraint. Who says an old dog can't learn new tricks?
Lorell, my neighbor has a growth of Morning Glories this same color. I've probably taken hundreds of photos of them, but none as good as yours. In addition to what Rich noted, I'll add that a most impressive aspect of your image is how well you handled the greens. Had they been intensely and vividly colored, they would have stolen attention from the star of the image. But the dark, neutralized green in your photo works perfectly - enough variation in hue and value and detail to be interesting, but definitely in a subordinate role. I suppose you could have just gotten lucky, but I have to believe you made some adjustments based on your always sound artistic sense.
Rich, Mother Nature performed the magic, not I. It would have been difficult to take a bad photo of what she presented to me.
I agree that the neutral gray background of my image works well, and it probably looks as if I desaturated it for a selective color effect. But other than the lower left corner (this was a somewhat gold color with areas of green grass growing up through the street and I immediately it felt was out of place with the rest of the image) and the upper left branch that Rich mentioned, I did no desaturation. I did slightly boost magenta saturation of the flowers in my COI (near the lower left Rule of Thirds hot spot), but I tried hard not to overdo this. Maybe I'm finally learning to practice restraint. Who says an old dog can't learn new tricks?
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