Telopea Triple
This one is for Dennis. Taken in the Rhododendron Gardens near Olinda Victoria last year, we were fortunate to find the white Waratahs in full bloom
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jansnow
Gorgeous flower, stunning image, well done kalarydr:-)
kalaryder replied
Thank you Jan, much appreciated
Dennis Gay
G’day Kala,
For me??? Thank you very much!!!
What a great triple-tiered display of these white Aussie floral wonders!
You have held your depth of field and selective focus up very well to keep quite descernible detail right up through the subject.
There is a bit of blur fringing problem around the trees in the background. You could possibly lower the saturation and apply that selectively to eradicate it. I also feel a tighter crop would remove some unnecessary background and also make it look like you cut off the bottom petals purposefully for effect. 8-)
Once again your exposure of a white subject in good light has rendered very good contrast and highlight control.
GB
Dennis
kalaryder replied
Yes it was Dennis. Thank you for those very helpful comments. If I cropped it, would it not lose the side petals and the sense of height? You were right of course, the lower petals were meant to be in.
Mayina
This is asesome Kala!
kalaryder replied
That you Gwenda, kind comment
Dennis Gay
G’day again Kala,
Remember it was only a suggestion based solely on how I perceive the image. The final decision on if, how, where you crop is up to you.
As I see it, with the petals cut off as they are it looks like sloppy photography. However if you were to make a decisive heavy crop you make it look as though you have done it for artistic purposes to increase impact or bringing the viewer’s attention more on the main subject etc, it works quite well. One benefit when making such a crop is that you can rotate the cropping frame for a better composition if needed.
This may mean ending up with an odd sized image but with something like this you could probably get away with a bit of distortion if you were to make the image conform to an 8×10 or similar after cropping. Have I made sense? 8-)
GB
D!
kalaryder replied
Ok, will try in a copy and see the results. Thanks.
John Quinn
Beautiful flower and background, great shot
kalaryder replied
Thank you kindly John
sunrender
wonderful shot and composition!
kalaryder replied
Thank you and thanks you for the fav too.
Tom Gomez
Very pretty flowers …
kalaryder replied
You have been browsing Tom, thanks for looking
hilarydougill
absolutely wonderful flowers, glorious imagery and colour, so different from our, Beautiful picture, so very well captured, hugsxxx
kalaryder replied
You have been busy browsing. :)
handprintz
Great colour and perspective Mik,lovely capture
kalaryder replied
Thank you again Trudi
Kristina K
they are wonderful, well done, its a stunning garden we visited there a couple of years ago. :) k
kalaryder replied
I owuld love to go back again. Sioux and I went two days in succession, the first was torrential rain (I thought it would clear up!!) and the second broiling sun :)
Kristina K
we went in winter in fog, which gave it an awesome feel to it. definately worth going again i recon..lol :) k
louisegreen
Beautiful image!
kalaryder replied
Thank you Louise
Bruce Wallace ...
Very nice, well done.
kalaryder replied
Thank you, we were so surprised to see these having only seen red before
Bruce Wallace ...
The white Waratah is very scarce and extremely vulnerable in the wild. There is only one known plant ever found in the wild. It is somewhere in the Bargo area, south west of Sydney. All white Waratahs are a clone of this one.