-- Kaoru Yuli (kaoruy@oneplace.com), September 22, 1998

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Hi Kaoru. This image is much better exposed than the last one. The backlit leaves look great, however, the flower itself looks a bit blurred. The background also is not as colorful as the last one. Technically it is a much more improved shot and you should be proud of it. good luck.

-- Bahman Farzad (cpgbooks@mindspring.com), September 22, 1998.

The shallow DOF isolates the subject nicely. The lighting is much too harsh. A 1 meter x 1 meter sheet of translucent plastic placed between the sun and the flower would reduce the constrast and lead to a more pleasing image. The leaf sticking out from the top of the flower is distracting. The vertical format and cropping are nice.

-- Chris Hawkins (peace@clover.net), September 23, 1998.

I agree with the above. The light is much too harsh causing too much contrast. The stem and leaves are washed out, and there is too much shadow on the flower. The image also appears to be unsharp.

A diffuser would have greatly helped this image.

Mark

-- Mark (Grafphoto@aol.com), September 26, 1998.

Bahman, Chris, and Mark

Thank you very much for your valuable comments. I am thinking to use a diffuser.

I was interested in a flower picture in the sunlight. If we reduce the sunlight too much, it may end up with a picture in a shadow, or in a cloudy day. We may have a nice colour, but may loose texture (or liveliness). Probably, the best answer is a weak diffuser. I like a dramatic feature of high contrast picture, althogh it is hard to take a nice one. I was trying the experiments.

In order to have a blurred background, a shallow depth of the field was used. Therefore, only a part of the flower is in focus. In our way of taking pictures, sometimes we pay more attention to the background (an atomosphere) than the main flower. Regards, Kaoru

-- Kaoru Yuli (kaoruy@oneplace.com), September 28, 1998.