[Leica] Friday Flower shot in a high-tech studio - other backgrounds and other flowers

[grduprey at mchsi.com (grduprey at mchsi.com)]

Douglas,

Always like your flower shots.  My favorite is the lily with the blue-white 
background.

Gene

----- Original Message -----
From: "Douglas Sharp" <douglas.sharp at gmx.de>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Friday, January 7, 2011 2:43:56 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
Subject: [Leica] Friday Flower shot in a high-tech studio - other 
backgrounds and other flowers

Hi Alan,

thanks for taking a look and your comment about the 
background  -  backgrounds are always a problem, 
particularly with flowers shot like this.

Here's the lily against a plain background with a 
luminous, soft-light fill

http://gallery.leica-users.org/d/250393-2/_MG_1092_edited-4-2-1.jpg

and again, with a blue-white gradient replacing the 
background

http://gallery.leica-users.org/d/187466-1/White_Lily_MG_1089-Edit-3.jpg

The story behind the shot:

The Lily was part of a project I did back in early 2005 
to fill in the time "between jobs" (after my last 
contract as a geophysical consultant and not long 
before my translation business really took off) and I 
tried various backgrounds and various post-processing 
steps at the time - and I'm still not sure which are 
most appropriate.

The subjects ranged from simple crocuses  
http://gallery.leica-users.org/d/250404-1/_MG_0954_RGB16-1.jpg

to bird of paradise flowers  
http://gallery.leica-users.org/d/250408-1/_MG_1105_edited-2-2-1.jpg

and ended up being edited down to around 2500 different 
shots from which one was ultimately selected and sold 
for use on the website of a German high-end Hi-Fi 
manufacturer:

http://gallery.leica-users.org/d/250400-1/300dpi_MG_1167_edited-1-1-2.jpg

They are still using it, too:-)

http://www.lindemann-audio.de/de/products/index.php

Cheers
Douglas




On 07.01.2011 20:05, Alan Magayne-Roshak wrote:
> On Fri, 07 Jan 2011 Douglas Sharp<douglas.sharp at gmx.de>  wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone - a Friday Flower from me again
>> Everything in the garden is dead or covered with snow,
>> so here's a white lily shot a while back indoors.
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/album150/_MG_1092-1.jpg.html
> ==========================================================================================================
> The flower is beautiful, but I'm afraid I'll have to say the wrinkled 
> background spoils it for me.  It just distracts (and detracts) from the 
> lily.
>
> Alan
>
> Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer
> UPAA POY 1978
> University Information Technology Services
> University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/
>
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