Saturday, October 2, 2010

Making the cut

Sometimes, when looking at a photo that seems like it has promise but I just am going nowhere with it, I make some radical changes to see if I can find what is nudging me along. Occasionally it works, and often not.  But worth trying.

The lighting on this rose and it's color caught me, but it required that I delve deeper to find what really seems to call me.  Flowing edges, with the suggestion of movement and light highlighting the edges.
Not an extraordinary shot, but a fun one, and an instructional one.
The blurred green leaf on the left points to the rose so when your eye leaves the rose and gazes at this leaf, it moves your eye right back to the rose. The subtle green circular form on the right is a bit player that relieves the monotony of the dark background and is restful for the eye to move to.
Hey, we make up this life anyway, why not this? :-)

1 comment:

Snap-Smith Photography said...

I felt the same feeling about some of the roses I've shot. It seems to me that the crispness of the edges, the delicacy of the translucent petals and the contrast of light areas against the shadows, just speaks perfection at it's finest. There are times when the bokeh, like your shot yesterday, just comes across as another dimension of perfection.