Florriade begins (1/2)

[Willy wombat]

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[Yi-P]

Nice, but,
The saturation seems to be recovered from blown highlights.

[Willy wombat]

Thanks Yi-P

I had a few problems with exposure yesterday because of the very strong lighting. Also and lot of the flower beds have white in them which are a nightmare.

Thanks for your comments though

[paulvdb1]

Steve - number 1 looks quite a bit better to me with a little more warmth and saturation - it tends to be a bit punchier with a little less blue in it and more red/yellow. Picking the middle bollard in the background for WB gave a slightly warmer shot.

That said - you may like the shots exactly as they are

I like the composition in #2 - just a bit more interesting than flower beds alone to show that people are actually studying the flowers.

[MarcL]

I won't make comments on contrast. Sometimes you try work with the light you have. Others may have more constructive comments regarding working with macro instead (with a shade and/or reflector).

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I like the semi-repeating patterns of flowers in this. Unfortunately the background seems a distraction. I'm not sure if you were meaning to include them, or if they were meant to be the subject, but amongst such colour and semi-ordered chaos they eaither disappear of just confuse that semi-order. I feel that the whole bed of flowers could have occupied the frame by itself, with an attempt to get close to bring focus to a single flower, or at least the leading flowers (somoething to focus - maybe that closest flower - before letting the eye wander around that magnificent riot.

This photo does make me want to be there. That colour, that non-pattern pattern...it just looks fantastic.

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I really like you're idea on this one - well-spotted. My urge is to get down lower, in the desire to improve the composition by being with the girl's level of effort, with perhaps, hopefully, the beds filling the background and the gap between her and the first flowers compressed/narrowed by the perspective change (it's hard to judge what would happen to it if you did this - I'm a lot further away than the shot's actuality ). The second student might be a little bit distracting - it's the first girl's focus that is the focus of this show - so could probably be cropped as well.

As I say, I really like the idea behind this one. Good stuff.

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I see you've spied that wonderful curve. It looks impressive. For me, unfortunately, it goes the wrong way. Lines in photos are sometimes used as "lead in" lines, that lead you in to the photo. For me, this, particularly the path, literally lead you out of the photo, emphasised by the people on the path doing precisely that. It's hard for me to say what would improve that, as I'd have to make way too many assumptions about what was possible with the composition (where you could stand, what else is outside of the frame, etc.).

It's a magnificent curve of colour there you've spotted. I (sincerely) wonder what else could be done with it? (thus my desire to attend, based on your photos ).

Of course, you're there - you can just go again, whenever you want (~mumbles~mongrel! ). Maybe if you can find a time with less contrasty light - earlier or later in the day, or even overcast (flower beds work for me best in overcast conditions, though that may be an anchovies -thing ).

Cheers,
MarcL

[Willy wombat]

Great review - I appreciate it - Thanks MarcL

Cheers for your comments to Paul. I will post a few more images from my day out at the festival. If you like flowers, then check them out too.

[stubbsy]

Steve

I can't add much to what's already been said about these images other than to say the second shot is an inspired composition. It tells a much stronger story than just a shot of flowers since we add content as we mentally speculate on what the young girls are doing.