Activity for User 502 - Murphy Hektner - mhektner@frontier.com

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75 May 24 Reply Hi Vincent: There are various ways to photograph the same scene. Regarding the Skunk Cabbage picture; I could have set up the camera at a lower level and shot slightly upward, or set the camera body at a higher level and shot downward somewhat. Each picture would have been a different view than my middle of the plant view. Best Regards Vincent. May 22nd
75 May 24 Reply The dots on the leaves are natural to certain plants. To photograph the picture my camera was tripod mounted and about the same height as the middle of the plant.

The lighting at the time the Skunk Cabbage was photographed was cloudy. Cheers...		 May 21st
75 May 24 Reply I am also more landscape format oriented as I seem to have more of that format in my files than portrait (verticals). For the most part I use what ever format seems to fit the scene. May 14th
75 May 24 Reply Hi Moe: I do not have the Z9. Some photo club friends have the D9 and it is different than my D850 in layout. Appears to be a tremendous camera body. Cheers... May 6th
75 May 24 Comment Hi Moe: I must say you are certainly using some interesting and creative techniques in the crafting of these pictures to share with us. This creation has a myriad of interesting color and swirls going many directions with the violet flower as the anchor point.
From a composition standpoint I would consider flipping this horizontally 180 degrees; in this manner you would have interesting leading lines from the left with the flower on the right. Try it and see what you think, I think it would work well.		 May 6th
75 May 24 Comment Hi Ray: A very striking pitcher plant well photographed with your cell phone. As with cell phone photography they have so much depth of field everything in the background is in focus to the point of becoming distracting, my Galaxy cell phone is the same way. I would post process the background more than you already have and diffuse and darken it down somewhat.

I have pictures of the California pitcher plant which differs a lot from your Hooded variety, will put it in the June round as you would find it very interesting.		 May 6th
75 May 24 Comment Hi Gaetan: A very striking flower composed pretty well with good overall sharpness. From a composition standpoint you do have a couple of border mergers at the right side of the picture frame, the edge of the plant touches the right side and then a couple of distractions by the stem.

Think it would improve your overall image if you toned down the light blue at the bottom right so it blends in better with the background.

We have botanist in our group that can identify this flowering tree. 		May 6th
75 May 24 Comment Hi Judy: You have achieved a very pleasant soft focus mood in this picture. The soft green out of focus background was a perfect fit for the three soft focus pinkish white flowers.

Do not want to sound like a nit-pic, however there is a background smudge just to the right of the top flower, then the right flower has one petal near the edge that looks squared off while the rest of the flowers have round edges. These are easy fixes with some careful post processing work.

Really good creative flower photography and the thin white border adds that finishing touch.		 May 5th
75 May 24 Comment Hi Dan: It pays to be up at sunrise, this picture proves it. Very dramatic sunrise lighting. Regarding composition; I really like how you have arranged the 4 flowers into a pleasing composition. You do have a border merger on the left side of the frame, the vertical twig runs pretty close to the edge of the frame.
You had a very challenging lighting situation to work with, the flower petals to the front are perfectly exposed however the petals in the rear are a little bright. You could try adding some color to the bright petals however this would be very hard to do and make it look right.
I do like the lighter areas in the background that show habitat rather than an all black background, then the very thin white border adds that finishing touch.

All in all a very nice image.

May 5th
75 May 24 Comment Hi Vincent: Interesting concept and picture, the tiny flower must be attached to one of the stem hairs. A pleasant out of focus background except for the dark area at the top which would be easy to clone in and fix.
The stem commands much of the picture; for the best impact it should be tack sharp from top to bottom. To have maximum sharpness on the stem your camera needs to be exactly parallel to the stem, think you are shooting at a slight downward angle. 		May 5th
75 May 24 Reply Thank You Judy... May 4th
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