[Banded Drake]

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

[Don Schaeffer]

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.

[Petographer]

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.

[NT73]

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.

[Don Schaeffer]

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.

[Don Schaeffer]

This is what I mean--slightly burned in.

[smarti77]

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..

[wulinka]

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

[Banded Drake]

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

[Toad]

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...