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Subject: Re: [OM] Bob started it! [was Scottish Bluebells]
From: Bob Whitmire <bwhitmire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2015 20:01:28 -0400
Very well done. Particularly New Red.

—Bob Whitmire
Certified Neanderthal

On Jun 4, 2015, at 2:00 AM, Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 5/31/2015 1:45 PM, Bob Whitmire wrote:
>> I’m not a flower taker,
> 
> Ah, but I am, and Mike @ TOP has given me the rationales I need to continue. 
> :-) 
> <http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2015/06/three-good-ways-to-avoid-clich%C3%A9s.html>
> 
> I offer a few from our garden Sun. and Tues. 
> <http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=17395>
> 
> There IS a fly in the ointment, but you have to take a look to see it. :-)
> 
> The accompanying rant goes like this.
> 
> I see over and over lovely flower subjects/compositions taken in bright light 
> with highlights blown badly enough that detail is lost and colors go off.
> 
> I see over and over lovely flower subjects/compositions taken in open shade, 
> overcast, etc. Often with the comment how the soft light made it possible to 
> get the shot that wouldn't be possible in direct sun.
> 
> People rattle on about how one day we'll have cameras with the DR to capture 
> such subjects.
> 
> The trouble with all that is that things look different in different light. 
> Flowers ever so subtly captured in soft light are bloodless, like a date with 
> your maiden aunt.* Flowers seen in sun are brazen, passionate, exciting. 
> That's what I want to capture!
> 
> And it's just not that difficult. Those above were all taken with a tiny 
> sensor P&S. Yet, no blown highlights, with bright, 'real' colors. And some of 
> the feeling of seeing them in person lingers in the images.
> 
> As with so much of photography, technique is as of more important than 
> equipment.
> 
> Moose D'Opinion

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