Hi I took this picture with fuji 100 on a 60 macro, at f/3.5. I would appriciate any comments that you have, they can only help. Thanks.

-- Chris Okon (Wadoo2900@aol.com), August 03, 1998

Answers

It may be my monitor, but the image seems to be really dark. I only see the purple flower and some out of focus details in the background. Maybe it's a nice image but I'm not sure since I can't view it. - L.P.

-- Louis-Philippe Masse (phisa@generation.net), August 03, 1998.

Sorry about that. If you adjust your monitors so that the background is kinda dark(not black) but the forground is bright you should see it the ways the print looks. thanks again.

-- Chris Okon (Wadoo2900@aol.com), August 03, 1998.

I crank my monitor luminosity all the way up and the image is still darker than normal. I guess the problem is on my side! Maybe if somebody else could tell what the image look on their monitor, I could know if mine needs repairs! - L.P.

-- Louis-Philippe Masse (phisa@generation.net), August 03, 1998.

I've got my monitor set for the full range scale psoted elsewhere and I'd say that it looks about 1/2 stop or more underexposed.

I'd crop the top just above the main flower. What did you do to get the purple halo around the main flower - do an in-focus and an out-of-focus exposure on the same frame? Or is that just another flower directly behind the in-focus one? In any event it's pretty nice.

Frank

-- Frank Kolwicz (bb389@lafn.org), August 03, 1998.

I believe it was -1/2, i was trying to block out the disturbing plain background by darkening it. The acutal print isnt sooo dark, but the flower is the only bright subject visible. The reason for the halo is that there were inner and outer pedals. I just focused on the inner pedals and the outer blurred and were kinda see through, so i figured it would look neat if i did that. I bracketted my exposure, i have the same shot but the way it really looked was a bright picture, ehh, it wasnt as exciting so i underexposed it. Anyone else have any suggestions? thanks

-- Chris Okon (Wadoo2900@aol.com), August 03, 1998.

What's wrong with a dark background??? It makes the lower stand out much better.

-- (andreas@physio.unr.edu), August 04, 1998.

I am not saying it's wrong, I just had difficulty to see it. I watch it on another monitor and it seems better. - L.P.

-- Louis-Philippe Masse (phisa@generation.net), August 04, 1998.

It looks like you deliberately placed an out-of-focus flower directly behind the main subject? It's weird, confusing and doesn't work at all for me. I'd work on perfecting more straightforward compositions before I tried to get gimicky.

-- Mark Ciccarello (mark@ciccarello.com), August 10, 1998.