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These are outstanding, EG, though I wish the background on the first two was more of a pure white. The third pic is my favorite because of the geometric design and because there is no background.
Thanks. Ideally, I wanted black background but couldn't find a perfectly black paper. So went with white instead. I did adjust white balance later (after posting these picture) since the original shot was taken under CFL (and, unfortunately, using flash). Will see if I can swap out these older pictures for new ones (taken in day light, no flash and white balance properly compensated for), as I work on trying to come up with another idea for this assignment.
I did swap the off-white background for black (but in raw form it looks a bit unnatural after my first attempt), instead went on with special effects and posted them here.
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ok,,, going for the obvious splash of color from flowers, but these were so vibrant, I couldn't resist!
Lighting was an issue with this one too... the sun was behind the flower shining SUPER bright & HOT! But it made the front appear in total darkness. I debated about using this in the 'Lighting' assignment but decided the colors were too brilliant and were really more of the focus than the lighting. I used the lighting from the back to really bring out the almost neon glow from inside the flower!
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Someone asked what the yellow flower was... (BTW, thanks for the rep, that was very kind of you, whomever you are?)
Its a 'Yellow King Humbert' in the Canna family (or Canna lily, although not a true lily) ... you can see a pix of it in full bloom at this link. FYI, Although I did take the photo posted below, I did not take the photo in the link I just provided in this post.... I'm simply offering it so you can see the full bloom. YIKES, just want to make sure there isn't any copyright confusion!
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