Thanks everyone for the critique!
@Ruud, I'm glad you like it.
I meant: original photo without cropping, etc. but reduced to 150Kb for fc.
@Mark, good to know the less centred bee comes over better.
@Geoff, I have to admit I had plenty of time here.
But I'm not sure which lines you mean should be straighter as the flower is made up of concentric circles?
@Martin, I have another with more blur - I'll try and upload that later. I actually liked it less. But I'd be interested to get your feedback.
Perhaps here the crop is too tight and therefore distracting?
I don't think I adjusted the saturation as such - looks same as original. But I could play around with this and contrast a bit more.
Frames: Yes, neverending story... ;-) I like experimenting with them.
It looks good to me, nice colors and good crop. Though I'm not sure about the focus here: While there is good sharpness on the back of the bee also the lower left corner is sharp and bright, this I feel a bit distracting. Maybe it would be an option to blur this part... Maybe a little bit more contrast and slightly less saturation, too.
Another point is the frame (yes, that's a never ending story with at least as many different opinions about as we have photographers here... :)) Even if your frame is not very big I feel the colors slightly distracting. In my experience a simple white frame can be just enough... But off course, that's just my opinion... :)
like your ps work
i know you never have time when taking these ( at least i don´t ) but if you do then try to get the lines maybe straiter
apart from that i like this dof is good and so are the coulers
cheers geoff
Frank Cecconi 04/10/2006 14:50
Focus is lacking but composition is brilliant!Véronique Soulier 04/10/2006 9:03
Trying insects too. read with interest everything written above greetings VSKasiaDesign 04/10/2006 3:38
Thanks everyone for the critique!@Ruud, I'm glad you like it.
I meant: original photo without cropping, etc. but reduced to 150Kb for fc.
@Mark, good to know the less centred bee comes over better.
@Geoff, I have to admit I had plenty of time here.
But I'm not sure which lines you mean should be straighter as the flower is made up of concentric circles?
@Martin, I have another with more blur - I'll try and upload that later. I actually liked it less. But I'd be interested to get your feedback.
Perhaps here the crop is too tight and therefore distracting?
I don't think I adjusted the saturation as such - looks same as original. But I could play around with this and contrast a bit more.
Frames: Yes, neverending story... ;-) I like experimenting with them.
Martin Unger 03/10/2006 22:39
It looks good to me, nice colors and good crop. Though I'm not sure about the focus here: While there is good sharpness on the back of the bee also the lower left corner is sharp and bright, this I feel a bit distracting. Maybe it would be an option to blur this part... Maybe a little bit more contrast and slightly less saturation, too.Another point is the frame (yes, that's a never ending story with at least as many different opinions about as we have photographers here... :)) Even if your frame is not very big I feel the colors slightly distracting. In my experience a simple white frame can be just enough... But off course, that's just my opinion... :)
Geoff Ashton 03/10/2006 22:32
like your ps worki know you never have time when taking these ( at least i don´t ) but if you do then try to get the lines maybe straiter
apart from that i like this dof is good and so are the coulers
cheers geoff
MWPhoto 03/10/2006 22:24
I like this one with the bee out of the center.Whatever processing you did looks great to me!
KasiaDesign 03/10/2006 21:52
@Edna, I got the process wrong, oops;-)I'll need to change the title.
@others, suggestions for improvement or maybe I shouldn't have processed the original?
Edna Clouds 03/10/2006 21:43
hmm, Honey maker, surely.. ? :)