Activity for User 1691 - Donald Darling Jr - ddarl54@gmail.com

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24 Dec 24 Comment Bev, thank you so much! I appreciate your feedback!! Dec 21st
24 Dec 24 Reply Charissa, thank you.

I'm sorry the image description didn't get through. I have a small lightbox that I refitted with an LED light source. This allows me to change the light color without using gels. I had my camera on a tripod and made several exposures with white light, green light and blue light from the LEDs. I did exposures with red light, but didn't like how they came out. I used a small LED flashlight to illuminate the flowers.

I successively layered the best of each color exposure on top of the white light image and erased that portion of each layer to reveal what I wanted to show from the layers below.

I agree with your observation that this image is more about the vase than the flowers. I do have another composition from a similar setup that is more "flower dominant" that may appear next month....!
Dec 12th
24 Dec 24 Comment Charissa, very nice composition. I like the subject and the lighting and background. The flowers are sharp. I like the soft shadows off to the lower right of the frame. Very, very nice work! Dec 10th
24 Dec 24 Comment Bev, very nice image. The background is nicely out of focus. Very good! Dec 10th

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48 Dec 24 Reply Bev, thank you! Dec 21st
48 Dec 24 Reply Stewart, thank you so much for the feedback. I don't do a lot of black and white editing and I appreciate your feedback. Dec 21st
48 Dec 24 Reply Jamie, thank you. I think there is a draw to old machines that were once very important and necessary. Then become useless and abandoned, but don't go away! Dec 21st
48 Dec 24 Comment Janie, this is a very pleasing image. Very nice story. I like the sharpness in the tree and the subjects. Thank you so much for sharing this. The mood this image creates is timely! Dec 10th
48 Dec 24 Comment Tom, this is an impressive image. I admire your creativity. The woman put a lot of work into the makeup and "body" paint(??). Don't know if I could do that. So, I appreciate your sharing that capture. Sharp and interesting. Very good work! Dec 10th
48 Dec 24 Comment Stewart, the scene is pretty nice. The image is a little too dark in the foreground. Looks like a lot of wind and wave action. Would be good to get more light into the lower half of the image. Dec 10th
48 Dec 24 Comment Jamie, this is an excellent image. What you did in post processing really works. Beautiful animals and you've done a great job with this capture and presentation. This will make a very nice print. Dec 10th
48 Dec 24 Comment Richard, good job with this image. Very clean and sharp. Depicts the scale of the work very nicely! Dec 10th
48 Dec 24 Comment Bev, I agree with Richard and Tom's comments. This is an outstanding image. Very sharp and colorful. I really like the subjects facial expression. Something is going on to her right or she's looking for mom! Very good! Dec 10th
48 Dec 24 Reply Yom, thank you! I've only been to Georgia a couple of times to visit a relative. I have heard of Old Car City and would like to get there some day. There's a semi abandoned junkyard an hour west of me that I keep meaning to go to. Need to get off my duff given how interesting abandoned things are! Dec 10th
48 Dec 24 Reply Richard, thank you! Generally speaking, I am impressed with how some of these old vehicles hold up out in the weather all the time. I appreciate your comments! Dec 10th

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