Magnolia II:

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Mamiya RB67  90mm normal lens  Kodak TRI X - 120 film  Normally developed.Shot inside under controlled environment with Plexiglas as background. Strobe light from the back. Technique is similar to the Scanned from B&W negative  converted to RGB color. Added +R and +Y. previous Magnolia flower shot.

-- Bahman Farzad (bahman_farzad@spotmetering.com), March 27, 1999

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sorry! The text got messed-up. It should read :Mamiya RB67  90mm normal lens  Kodak TRI X - 120 film  Normally developed. Shot inside under controlled environment with Plexiglas as background with a strobe light in a soft-box behind it. Technique is similar to the previous magnolia shot. Scanned from B&W negative  converted to RGB color then added +R and +Y.

-- Bahman Farzad (bahman_farzad@spotmetering.com), March 27, 1999.

Bahman,

I like it but not in the current cropping. You've cut the bottom petal, I suggest cropping the top and left edges so that the other petals join the frame. This way the flower acts to divide the space. I think that this is more attractive. The eye has three more ways to move in and out of the frame. As it is now, my eye wanders out of the frame through the bottom petal.

I believe Frank Kolwicz commented on Larry Korhnak's Phantom Forest about white sky never looking so nice. Well, the white background here is so ever nice with those very subtle tones. It certainly breathes a softness into the image that is well suited to it.

Bravo.

-- Paul Lenson (lenson@pci.on.ca), March 27, 1999.

Another very nice example of your refined technique. The image doesn't have quite the same impact for me though that the previous one did. Anyway, excellent work!

-- Garry Schaefer (schaefer@pangea.ca), March 29, 1999.

Thanks for the input. This perhaps is not as strong as the other one. It is old and (10+ years) and is one of my initial attempts to capture the flower. Thanks again for your input. it keeps me on my toes!! (I hope it is the right expression). Bahman

-- Bahman Farzad (Bahman_farzad@spotmetering.com), March 30, 1999.

There was a guy (what was his name - Weston?) who shot peppers for 10 years, until some day one of those peppers became really famous. I can see the same happening with your magnolias. Nice work! I find the cropping highly interesting and creative! The reason why it has (slightly) less impact to me than your previous posting is that the center of the flower seems less well defined. Your previous image lived because of the contrast between the overall softness and the highly focused, crisp, contrasty center.

-- Andreas Carl (andreas@physio.unr.edu), April 01, 1999.