At the End of the Day...

[Katy Noelle]

Thank you very much for viewing.

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Nikon D70, Nikon 18-70mm lens, processed in LR 3.

Perfect!

[jiro]

I keep getting cut off; so I just say 'STUNNING'.

Thank you very much, Steve.

[jiro]

Perfect!

Thank you very much, Katy. My next goal is to learn how to take floral shots as soft as your images.

[Frankie]

Words just don't seem adequate. Absolutely stunning!

[jiro]

Words just don't seem adequate. Absolutely stunning!

You are very kind with words, Frankie. Thank you very much.

[jp01]

Jiro - I think everyone has said all that needs saying. I read your "interview" with Donald and am stunned at the short time you have been practising digital photography. Your comments and advice displays a worryingly (for others !) deep knowledge of the subject ! Something to aspire to, but time is my enemy...

Keep 'em coming.

Jon

[Wirefox]

Jiro

I do like this shot. I did some of these last year and went for the vibrant look. I think I prefer this treatment. It rings all the right bells for me but if you were a beginner my advise would be to have tied the leaf and flower head in the foreground out of the way. As it stands the rest of the image is so well done that pales to insignificance....but it is there

[jiro]

Jiro - I think everyone has said all that needs saying. I read your "interview" with Donald and am stunned at the short time you have been practising digital photography. Your comments and advice displays a worryingly (for others !) deep knowledge of the subject ! Something to aspire to, but time is my enemy...

Keep 'em coming.

Jon

Thank you very much, Jon. I hope I can keep them coming. Fingers crossed that my old Nikon D70 still has a lot of juice in it to keep working. Sometimes I shoot as many as 500 shots a day just to understand a certain principle about photography. Ain't digital photography great? If we are still in the film age I could be buried in debt right now with all the film I've used and sending them to developing labs for processing! Cheers.

[jiro]

Jiro

I do like this shot. I did some of these last year and went for the vibrant look. I think I prefer this treatment. It rings all the right bells for me but if you were a beginner my advise would be to have tied the leaf and flower head in the foreground out of the way. As it stands the rest of the image is so well done that pales to insignificance....but it is there

Thanks, Steve. Question: "Would you want me to move the flower and the leaf a little more off to the left side?" It would probably look nice, too with a true square crop. What do ya think?

[rob marshall]

Thanks, Steve. Question: "Would you want me to move the flower and the leaf a little more off to the left side?" It would probably look nice to with a true square crop. What do ya think?

I think it would be even better...

edit of Jiro's shot.

[jiro]

Thanks, Rob. That is a good edit. I tried to use the 4 X 5 crop lately as I seem to enjoy it. Hehehe. Thanks!

[Wirefox]

Would you want me to move the flower and the leaf a little more off to the left side?"

No. the indistinct object obscuring the lower quarter of the main subject needs to go altogether. Robs crop makes it even more obvious and I can't take my eyes off of it now I find that old tights (pantyhose in US speak) are a gentle way to tie delicate stems out of the way - but they must be barely black, 10 denier, with a seam up the back

[Skitalez]

look and feel envy ))))) dazzling!

[Katy Noelle]

Thank you very much, Katy. My next goal is to learn how to take floral shots as soft as your images.

Oh, my word! Thanks! sniff. sniff. sniff.

[Wirefox]

I am seriously worried now. This is like the squirrel episode a year back where only I could see it

[Black Pearl]

Brilliant, brilliant image. Love the light, the flare and the 1970's feel.......must dig my flares out again

[Vandenberg]

nice golden hour picture, light flows nicely

[jiro]

No. the indistinct object obscuring the lower quarter of the main subject needs to go altogether. Robs crop makes it even more obvious and I can't take my eyes off of it now I find that old tights (pantyhose in US speak) are a gentle way to tie delicate stems out of the way - but they must be barely black, 10 denier, with a seam up the back

I am running out of coffee here. LOL! Are you talking about that small sunflower bud at the lower left side of the fully opened sunflower? Yes or No?

[jiro]

Oh, my word! Thanks! sniff. sniff. sniff.

Oh, girl. You are just very modest but in reality your photographic progress is well worth emulating.

[jiro]

Brilliant, brilliant image. Love the light, the flare and the 1970's feel.......must dig my flares out again

Thanks for dropping by, Robin. So, you were able to dig the 70's look ha. Cool!