Rose (Reloaded!!!)

tomshen · 22nd February 2004

Try something different...

ndroo · 22nd February 2004

Wow! I love this one.

OzOn3 · 22nd February 2004

VEry cool! I like the first flower too! Your whole series of pictures gave it a very "chinese advertisement" look.. Hope you know what i mean :P

vonvonz · 22nd February 2004

lovely first shot, the pink rose. the dof of the stem area is nice.

Falcon · 22nd February 2004

The composition of the first shot is simple yet very effective. The third one has this dreamy feel to it. These two are my favourites among these lot. Great work.

Nightstar · 23rd February 2004

me a newbie but really like the first and third shots! may i know what settings you used, esp for the first one?

i also feel that it's got a "taiwanese ad" feel to the pictures...can already imagine those wedding photos with your pics as the background

cheers,
nightstar

SniperD · 23rd February 2004

Vonderful! I like the style of composition for the 1st one and the colours that matched the mood. would be nice if there's a few of the same color rose petals scattered in the background too

nice DOF

tomshen · 23rd February 2004

thx all for your kind comments.

Nightstar: this series was taken at home, with natural light from the window. I used two types of backdrops. For the first shot, white backdrop was used to create a high-key effect. The last one was taken with a black backdrop. The first three shots were processed with soft effect. The 3rd one was processed with 2-pass soft effect, in which u may see the soft edges. I spent much longer time to setup and find suitable angles. It worth more effort to achieve better results.

Nightstar · 23rd February 2004

Thanks Tomshen for sharing

..maybe it's time to get a few roses to try out too but not optimistic i can recreate 1/10th of your effect

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RuthBaby · 24th February 2004

impressive

FOOXX · 24th February 2004

Originally Posted by tomshen

thx all for your kind comments.

..... The 3rd one was processed with 2-pass soft effect, in which u may see the soft edges. .....

sorry, but wat do u mean by a 2 - pazz soft effect ..... ?? .....

tomshen · 24th February 2004

Originally Posted by FOOXX

sorry, but wat do u mean by a 2 - pazz soft effect ..... ?? .....

I create a full-frame soft effect first, then select the central part and reverse selection with 30px feather. Do a 2nd softeffect to blur the edges. Hope this is helpful.

hwchoy · 24th February 2004

Originally Posted by Nightstar

i also feel that it's got a "taiwanese ad" feel to the pictures...
nightstar

maybe because it is written in traditional script

Can advise where to obtain nice looking chinese fonts? those I find embedded in the Adobe Opentype are not very nice.

tomshen · 24th February 2004

Originally Posted by hwchoy

maybe because it is written in traditional script

Can advise where to obtain nice looking chinese fonts? those I find embedded in the Adobe Opentype are not very nice.

I downloaded a few from the web, quite difficult to get nice fonts. Still searching.

FOOXX · 25th February 2004

Originally Posted by tomshen

I create a full-frame soft effect first, then select the central part and reverse selection with 30px feather. Do a 2nd softeffect to blur the edges. Hope this is helpful.

thankz .....

22nd February 2004	#1
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SniperD Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Behind the viewfinder... Posts: 5,954	Vonderful! I like the style of composition for the 1st one and the colours that matched the mood. would be nice if there's a few of the same color rose petals scattered in the background too nice DOF __________________ EYE-DEAS

23rd February 2004	#8
tomshen Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2002 Posts: 3,719	thx all for your kind comments. Nightstar: this series was taken at home, with natural light from the window. I used two types of backdrops. For the first shot, white backdrop was used to create a high-key effect. The last one was taken with a black backdrop. The first three shots were processed with soft effect. The 3rd one was processed with 2-pass soft effect, in which u may see the soft edges. I spent much longer time to setup and find suitable angles. It worth more effort to achieve better results. __________________ Visit http://www.tomshenstudio.com

22nd February 2004	#2
ndroo Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: www.fuzzyeyeballs.com Posts: 6,853	Wow! I love this one.

22nd February 2004	#3
OzOn3 Member Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Singapore Posts: 1,103	VEry cool! I like the first flower too! Your whole series of pictures gave it a very "chinese advertisement" look.. Hope you know what i mean :P

22nd February 2004	#4
vonvonz Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Jason's Heart Posts: 601	lovely first shot, the pink rose. the dof of the stem area is nice.

22nd February 2004	#5
Falcon Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 2,876	The composition of the first shot is simple yet very effective. The third one has this dreamy feel to it. These two are my favourites among these lot. Great work.

23rd February 2004	#6
Nightstar Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Singaporean in Shanghai Posts: 81	me a newbie but really like the first and third shots! may i know what settings you used, esp for the first one? i also feel that it's got a "taiwanese ad" feel to the pictures...can already imagine those wedding photos with your pics as the background cheers, nightstar

23rd February 2004	#9
Nightstar Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Singaporean in Shanghai Posts: 81	Thanks Tomshen for sharing ..maybe it's time to get a few roses to try out too but not optimistic i can recreate 1/10th of your effect .

24th February 2004	#10
RuthBaby Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: WAT? WAN TO STALK MI AH? LOLZ Posts: 1,983	impressive