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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 7/24/2008
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Thanks! Thanks! Thanks!
Nick
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 7/24/2008
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Thanks a lot for this noce comment, Visar!
To be honest... well, I find the images of this series just "OK", whatever that might mean, but the enthusiasm I had when I was shooting such photos has been reduced by the time passing by. I am thus very glad if you find this one so good, as I do wonder if such images are nothing else than copying and mimicking everybody that does something similar. For let's assume some other garden, some other "composition" of this kind. Would that really require anything at all? I reckon not. It would be just the same old soup with a bit more or less "salt and pepper", some other colors.. some other light. But still the same recipe, I guess.
So, and here comes the question, is there any way to push this kind of image to some other levels? I must say, I find your light-based approach very promising! It seems to me that it could be one very fruitful way to just punch the narrow limits of such a style to new horizons. This path has been beaten to death, so many times. It's good for exerciting and elementary things like DoF, lighting, whatever. But... what else? This is why I keep on saying that flowers are not at all easy. Something new has to be found. Something, something, but what? :-/ What can be done to add something more to the plain "beauty"??? Combining wide angles and your light-only method???
Any hints, clues, ideas?
Aaaaaaarrrrrrrgggghhh, flowers are not "easy"! They are hard, hard, hard!!!! And not for just enhancing (once again) their "beauty" - which in the meantime is enough for making me wishing to share a bottle with you!
Cheers!
Nick
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 7/23/2008
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Thanks a lot for the nice comment, Peter!
Well, it's just that... "lovely". Wish I could get some image of flowers that is more than "lovely". But they are much harder than they seem.
Cheers!
Nick
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 7/23/2008
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Yep, it seems that I also abandoned that path in the past. (Thanks heavens for that! ;-))
But I must also post some of my naive "accomplishments", ey?
Cheers!
Nick
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 7/23/2008
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Thanks a lot, Dave!
I can only second you and Andre, but I also notice that such a shot, like this one here, is much more trivial to make, than to go for a shot of a bigger part as a whole. Getting the whole scene is a more difficult problem.
Cheers!
Nick
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Claudia Perilli
{K:31090} 7/23/2008
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Bella! Bella! Bella!
Claudia
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absynthius .
{K:20748} 7/23/2008
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it is impressive how the flowers are spread throughout the canvas, bursting out of melting colours of this great DoF, and the vantage point has given you an outstanding border-edged isolated composition Nick.
very beautiful photograph,
cheers,
v.
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Peter De Rycke
{K:41212} 7/22/2008
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Lovely shot, i like the mix of different colours !
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Avi
{K:70138} 7/22/2008
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reminded me of my floral shot... (one of the very few times I tried.. ) .. :):)
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Dave Stacey
{K:150877} 7/22/2008
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Nicely done, Nick! I think it is good to have a central focus point, as Andre suggested, but really it depends on the type of scene you want to create.
Dave.
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