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

[douglas.sharp at gmx.de (Douglas Sharp)]

Hello Gene,

I did that version on the suggestion of Tina Manley 
after the first time I posted it with a white 
background, and I don't usually like to use so much PS 
on a shot.

Somehow it turned out larger than life and so 
three-dimensional that it appears to jump out of the 
screen - I was actually quite surprised at the result.

Best from Hannover - and thanks for taking a look and 
the kind comment
Douglas


On 08.01.2011 20:39, grduprey at mchsi.com wrote:
> 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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