Exotic flowers

[bje07]

Exotic not for everybody but for European people yes!
Taken with natural light. As the BG was too present even if I placed flowers far from the wall, I played with a level layer in Photoshop CC to darken it.

C&C welcomed.

[Mike Buckley]

This proves that you don't have to put black material behind a subject to create this effect. Nice soft light displays the shape of the attractive pot. I wonder what you would have thought of the image if you had raised your camera just a bit to get more separation between the front and rear edges of the top of the pot.

[Wavelength]

Flower not revealing itself

[bje07]

This proves that you don't have to put black material behind a subject to create this effect. Nice soft light displays the shape of the attractive pot. I wonder what you would have thought of the image if you had raised your camera just a bit to get more separation between the front and rear edges of the top of the pot.

In my first idea I wanted to keep as far as possible invisible the small white table where flowers are presented, that why I shot almost horizontally.
Your remark is clever mostly as I remove the table and you have no space reference.

[Wavelength]

now i can see this; very nice

[bje07]

Thank you Nandakumar.

[Urbanflyer]

Interesting and intriguing!

[bje07]

Thank you Judith for commenting.

[Shadowman]

Nicely composed and exposed.

[bnnrcn]

The flowers look very lively against the black BG Jean The edges of the pot don't seem even , may be you weren't very careful when masking ?

[bje07]

Thank you John

[bje07]

Thank you Binnur for commenting. you are right I did too fast my corrections on the pot.
I worked on my laptop, so you apologize me

[IzzieK]

Jean...upon careful inspection, I think you should tidy up the processing a bit...there are some leftover artifacts from everywhere when the image is expanded in lytebox. Just nitpicking...it is a very beautiful flower arrangement worthy of taking a shot.

[bje07]

Hi Izzie,
nitpicking: I didn't know the word, now yes, thank you.
You are right as Binnur, I made some (minor) mistakes in PP of this picture.

[JBW]

my own preference is to leave them in the garden. A bit of flash can give you a black bg in the garden.

[bje07]

Brian I have no garden and even in France there is no such flowers growing naturally

In addition a flash would flatten the image, if you are right about darken the BG (the same indoors, as you choose a less opened f/

[JBW]

Brian I have no garden and even in France there is no such flowers growing naturally

You can grow them indoors.
http://worldoffloweringplants.com/st...ge-strelitzia/

[bje07]

Flowers here are Heliconia bihai (red palulu), strelizia is also a very nice flower.
I have already anthuriums which are less invasive