Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/01/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Fri, 07 Jan 2011 Douglas Sharp <douglas.sharp at gmx.de> wrote: >Hi Alan, >thanks for taking a look and your comment about the >background - backgrounds are always a problem, >particularly with flowers shot like this. >Here's the lily against a plain background with a >luminous, soft-light fill >http://gallery.leica-users.org/d/250393-2/_MG_1092_edited-4-2-1.jpg >and again, with a blue-white gradient replacing the >background >http://gallery.leica-users.org/d/187466-1/White_Lily_MG_1089-Edit-3.jpg >The story behind the shot: >The Lily was part of a project I did back in early 2005 >to fill in the time "between jobs" (after my last >contract as a geophysical consultant and not long >before my translation business really took off) and I >tried various backgrounds and various post-processing >steps at the time - and I'm still not sure which are >most appropriate. ====================================================================================== Maybe I was overly critical. I didn't realize it was the first step in a process. It looks great with the plain white. Alan Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer UPAA POY 1978 University Information Technology Services University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee amr3 at uwm.edu http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/