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and tree, this is my wifes fav. flower and they smell soooo good. This is in my front yard. Tell me what you think.









i have another version of this one , but i want to see what yall thought of this one .



thanks for looking ........... Shawn

So hard to photograph white flowere. The petals so easily wipe out. YOu can hardly see the edges of the petals--white on white. It needs some burning in.

I think you can see the petals fine. Maybe your monitor settings Don. The only thing I might suggest is a slightly more straight on angle but this is fine too.

I have a 17" lcd monitor not calibrated except as it came (plug and play). I can see the detail in the white petals, but if I tilt the top of the screen away from me, everything gets darker. If I tilt it towards me everthing gets lighter. Just like the monitor on my camera.
When I see the calibration simulators with the grey bands from black to white I can see them all. I cant say what it looked like on the crt. as I never thought of calibrating at the beginning. It was bad enough figuring out windows.

My calibration check was with a box of Jelly belly beans. Photographed and then checked on screen with the originals. I nearly ate them twice.

I can see it but it is not as clear as it would be in reality. I have this problem all the time. The petals get washed out.

This is what I mean--slightly burned in.

I had a similar issue with a shot of a white flower. In this case I think you lose some of the beauty of the bright white flower by burning the petals. There is enough tones in the original to see lines between each petal..

white flowers are hard. I always admire those old gelatin silver prints of flowers, where you assume they were white (although they could have been pink or....), but that look sooooo good!

i think you did pretty well Shawn, might have wanted to step down the aperture a stop or so.

there is a lot of light on the leaves left of the flower as well, that draws attention from the flower.

uli

Don Schaeffer Wrote:http://www.shuttertalk.com/forums/images...rnedin.jpg

This is what I mean--slightly burned in.

Don ,

it looks very drab to me now, these flowers are very white ( almost snow white ) and your version looks very pink. It almost looks like the flower is wilting .



Uli,

i see what you mean the leaves are glossy ( almost waxy looking ) . Like i said they are in my front yard and i can try it again . but i see what you are saying .



Thanks ....... Shawn

I kind of like what Don did - but I hear what you are sayingabout the purity of the white color, Drake. I don't know jack about flower photography - so can't ad anything meaningful beyond a gut opinion...