Posted by JL Morris on January 15, 2008
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Color,
Critiqued,
Flowers
Flowers are fun and simple to photograph. First you are starting with one of nature’s finest creations, pleasing to the eye and fragrant to the olfactory sense. The trick is finding a way of illustrating this in a new way.
This photographer has filled the frame with the subject. I it has the appearance of multiple Japanese fans overlapping to form a kaleidoscope of color. The placement of the head of the stigma is interestingly located in the upper left hand corner while the base of the floral axis if near the center. I particularly like the soft light emerging from around the base of the petals giving us wonderful separation.
The only flaw I perceive, and there is little or nothing the photographer could do about it, is the color of the stigma buds. They are gold / yellow that does not separate well form the background color.
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January 15th, 2008 at 8:40 am
This is a really pretty image…I could see a collection of them along a long wall
January 15th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
I spent this last summer taking lots of flower pictures. I have had this particular hibiscus plant in a pot for four years now. Every time it blooms, no matter what time of year, the blossoms are a vibrant orange and are always perfect. I never tire of photographing them and try to get a different view each time.