[Leica] Spring flowers from a walk through the neighborhood

[abridge at gmail.com (Adam Bridge)]

Thank you to everyone who responded to the images.

Ted, I take your point about both being centered and about out of
focus flower in the background.

Curiously this is a cropped composition from the one I shot in the
field. You'll probably like the original image even less.

What I was thinking when I composed this: I didn't want simply to have
the blossom floating in space - I wanted context for these tiny
flowers and felt that using the out of focus form I would enhance that
context.

Now in the original I cropped into the picture in the lower left
corner a sharp focus piece of another petal - thinking that it would
balance the eye motion - okay - a bit arty. I'll post the image
tomorrow.

I appreciate the opportunity to discuss this image and value the
thoughtful feedback.

adam

On 3/27/06, Ric Carter <ricc@mindspring.com> wrote:
> Ted, my apologies for not clearly stating that I was NOT criticizing
> your criticism. Sorry if I offended you.
>
> Adam. It's a damned beautiful image to my eye, even if it's not
> perfect. Of course, that's just my opinion;^)
>
> Ric Carter
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/Passing-Fancies
>
>
> On Mar 27, 2006, at 7:38 PM, Ted Grant wrote:
>
> > Ric Carter offered:
> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Spring flowers from a walk through the
> > neighborhood
> >
> >>>> Knocked me on my butt gorgeous.<<<<
> > Re. Adam's first flower photograph.
> >
> >> On Mar 27, 2006, at 1:19 PM, Adam Bridge wrote:
> >> <http://www.adambridge.com/Photos/2006/03/26/_L3U9868-crp.jpg><<<
> >
> >
> > Steady Ric, yes it's an excellent picture... However!! Yeah here I
> > go again but look at the picture and what do you see almost as fast
> > as you see the main flower subject?
> >
> > You obviously missed it or you'd not be on your butt! ;-) Maybe yer
> > knees. ;-)
> >
> > Upper right side, the flowers in the back ground like a vertical
> > slice of white!!   Cover that over with your hand or a piece of
> > paper and "YES YOU HAVE A NICE KNOCK YOU ON YOUR BUTT PHOTOGRAPH!"
> >
> > However, as nit picking as you may feel my comment is, it's simple
> > little things like this that makes or breaks a smashing good
> > picture from "A class" to a plain old fashion "b -" or less! :-(
> >
> > No argument about the flower itself, beautiful. But its that one
> > thing along with the "flower centered composition" that's taking
> > points off the picture on the whole!
> >
> > Sorry I call them as I see them. Put your hand to screen and take
> > out the slice of white on the right and you'll see exactly what I'm
> > talking about. The flower jumps off the page smack in the face! As
> > is,without the covered distractions the eyes jump back and forth!
> > They shouldn't in this case as powerful as the flower is!
> >
> > ted
> >
> >
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