Flowers Anyone?

[D-tach]

I knew I was missing something here - beautiful Jonathan!
I hope you keep the engine running

[jcoldslabs]

Thanks, Tom. I hope to keep the engine running, too.

J.

[jcoldslabs]

[Corran]

This higher key image is a nice foil to the other.

[Ken Lee]

Bravo Maestro !

[jcoldslabs]

The funny thing is the higher-key aspect is due in part to the high level of base fog in this old film. I don't think I can get any proper blacks from it, but if I develop it long enough--in this case twenty minutes rotary--I can draw out some decent highlights.

J.

[Dan Quan]

I REALLY like this but since ones eye moves from focused to unfocused I prefer the focused bottom section cropped out.

[jcoldslabs]

Bravo Maestro !

Thanks, Ken. In fairness, your high-key still lifes are always instructive. Sometimes I need to be reminded that an image without blacks or whites can still be effective.

I REALLY like this but since ones eye moves from focused to unfocused I prefer the focused bottom section cropped out.

I agree about the sliver of focus in the foreground being distracting, but each time I cropped it down the image seemed too crowded somehow. Luckily, that decision is not set in stone.

J.


EDIT: Dan, here's a cropped version for comparison:

[Dan Quan]

Thanks, Ken. In fairness, your high-key still lifes are always instructive. Sometimes I need to be reminded that an image without blacks or whites can still be effective.



I agree about the sliver of focus in the foreground being distracting, but each time I cropped it down the image seemed too crowded somehow. Luckily, that decision is not set in stone.

J.


EDIT: Dan, here's a cropped version for comparison:

Leave the top. headroom makes it feel younger and less mature, fresher and more innocent. Like a child with more headroom or an adult with less.

Actually, I still prefer this to the former.

[jcoldslabs]

Feeling my way to a sense of 'proper proportion,' that's always the aesthetic struggle. Cropping gives me fits!

J.