You really gave this flower life - It looks like it's looking at something, yearning for something.
Way to make an inanimate flower into a seemingly animate person, and take something we're all too familiar with and look at it in a new way.
Only thing I would have changed is to add some light on the front of the flower - the backlight on the stem is perfect, but it makes the color of the flower fade into the background.
Thanks treymix. A reflector is on my current wish list to do just what you suggest, but alas that list gets longer and longer and the pain of the D70 and two lens I purchased this spring is still there.Don't forget about the Gallery. Are your photos there??
Nikon Samurai #13
"A photographer is known by what he shows not by what he throws. The best photographers have the biggest trash cans." Quote from Nikon School sometime in the early 1970's.
Old Timer,
Very nice pic. I recall having my curosity piqued the first time I looked at it but it took a reminder by treymix for me to ponder it again. I love the sunflower and the backlighting. I wouldn't change a thing.
I am very curious about the background. The dark area in the lower right seems like it is closer than the hexagonal ? image just above the flower. Despite this, the light, angulated area has a sharper border which would suggest it is closer to the flower than the darker area to the right.
Can you help me make sense of this?
Thanks wposloski for commenting on this image. As to the background it was pretty simple, a row of green shrubs about 30 ft behind where I photographed the flower distance was same overall. I'm not nearly as versed in lighting technique as I should be so I can't explain why there would be a difference.Don't forget about the Gallery. Are your photos there??
Nikon Samurai #13
"A photographer is known by what he shows not by what he throws. The best photographers have the biggest trash cans." Quote from Nikon School sometime in the early 1970's.
