I have been experimenting with flowers under unusual lighting conditions. Highly experimental, still trying out a couple of techniques. All comments and suggestions are welcomed!
1The Abstinence of Reúcheurrie
vkashi said:i can pinpoint exactly why, but these images seem refreshingly nice. maybe it is the blue of the background? i think this series is getting somewhere, just keep pegging on. :thumbsup:
no.1 has nice composition, no.2 is too empty at bottom right and some of the oof leaves are a bit distracting (although not all of them, maybe its just the placement), no.3 is too cluttered imho.
btw, i thought you are allowed to post only one shot at a time in this forum
fisheye said:I guess these are awesome pictures becuase you've reached a perfect balance with shadows and lights.
love it.
doug3fflux said:the later pictures are slightly more saturated?
eikin said:though the lighting effect is nice the pictures don't work, surveyed the pictures a couple of rounds and still don't quite get anything. maybe keep your composition simple for a start.
Slivester said:Not entirely sure if this sound fleasible, but I am rather an abstract expressionist, I am looking for a very surreal form of photography. Really hard to define at this stage, but I am pursuing for a variant of colour-rich, a variant without distinctive nature, or rather indirectly and perhaps even directly trying to be out of the limits.
I fully endorse with the "simple composition for a start", but I find myself unable to associate with that form of composition. Its sort of unwilling, yet maybe even resisting to attempt.
Its like a feeling; while I take something that takes up a simple and direct form, I feel like the image is inferior. Perhaps its personal taste, I guess.
eikin said:simple is not direct.
eikin said:starting simple allows you to observe and analyse your subject(s) intensely.
do not do things for the sake of avoiding something else, that's closing options. the thought that some other form is inferior already limits your creativity.
if you want to look for examples, zaren has a couple of intensely colourful abstract pieces that are simple in composition but charged with imagination.