Photographs Rose

[Barbarian]

 

[farouk]

Great pic!

Kind of almost Gothic in its aesthetic, I guess.

 

[Carolyn]

Beautiful colors. My great grandmother made a flour sack quilt using these colors on cream color background. As a rose it is even more beautiful.

 

[farouk]

Beautiful colors. My great grandmother made a flour sack quilt using these colors on cream color background. As a rose it is even more beautiful.

Carolyn: Kind of subtly restrained colors, right?

 

[Barbarian]

While fiddling around, I discovered my camera has a setting that will take several exposures and stack them to make an HDR-like image. More lifelike, I think.

 

[farouk]

B: Actually I think the golden-brownish tinge in the first photo is quite effective.

Kind of Gothic, really.

 

[Carolyn]

It picks up the cream color in the wilting rose and carries it through the photo. One is like a pastel and the other is a greyed version. I am no expert but took a few painting lessons.... The values of lights and darks of a sort of greenish yellow brown brass color causes the dark reds and pinks of the rose to be almost complimentary, but they are so greyed or darkened that it really works and is beautiful. It is hard to express this well when I don't really know what I am talking about.

 

[faeriecat]

Very nice!

 

[Barbarian]

It picks up the cream color in the wilting rose and carries it through the photo. One is like a pastel and the other is a greyed version. I am no expert but took a few painting lessons.... The values of lights and darks of a sort of greenish yellow brown brass color causes the dark reds and pinks of the rose to be almost complimentary, but they are so greyed or darkened that it really works and is beautiful. It is hard to express this well when I don't really know what I am talking about.

We use a different vocabulary in photography, but yes, you do know what you're talking about, perhaps intuitively.

 

[faith133]

Beautiful shot! What type of macro settings did you use?

 

[Barbarian]

I used the kit lens 18-55mm Pentax lens. Shot on a tripod at maybe 1/8 second. Made five separate jpegs at different exposure levels from one raw image file. Recombined as an HDR.

Second one was pretty much out of the camera.

 

[Angel]

Amazing! If I were you, I'd print out this picture large, and hang it up!

 

[farouk]

The first photo would make a good kind of backdrop to a Renaissance-Gothic re-enactment, I think.

 

[Atonement]

I like the texture and composition.. Good work