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Red Flare: Film: 50 ISO Fujichrome Velvia, Pentax LX 80-200mm zoom. Exposure was obtained using an off-camera Pentax digital spotmeter from the flower. The water drops are real! The gray background comes from the reflection of rain clouds in water. No exposure data was recorded.

-- Bahman Farzad (cpgbooks@mindspring.com), October 31, 1998

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The red on grey, coupled with the excellent exposure, makes this image effective. My only suggestion would be to consider cropping the top third, just above the pad that touches the lily.

-- Sandy Quandt (sandyquandt@centuryinter.net), October 31, 1998.

Very artistic.

-- Larry Korhnak (lvk@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu), October 31, 1998.

Perfect! No cropping required. What creates the pattern in the water (the obvious one, not the subtle reflections of the clouds I mean)? Red/grey is one of my favourite color combinations. One of the flower's petals is "defective" but even that adds interest to this outstanding photo!

-- (andreas@physio.unr.edu), November 01, 1998.

Your best contribution to this forum yet! Only suggestion would have been to put the flower over the circle in the background to make it less distracting, and better use of shapes, but still a very effictive image.

-- Tait Stangl (taits@usa.net), November 01, 1998.

Bahman, I like this as well as anything I've seen here this year. The flower is sharp, colorful and interesting and the background is intriguing; it forces the viewer to, not only identify what it is, but to contemplate its monochromatic connection with the colorful forground subject. (whew, I was back in art school for a moment there). In plain english, I like it well enough to look at more than once.

-- Mike Green (mgprod@mindspring.com), November 01, 1998.


Very nice picture. I would agree with Sandy that cropping off the top to eliminate the bright reflections in the background would make it even better. Why have such a wonderfully brilliant red flower competing with white out-of-focus highlights for attention? The red-gray color contrasts really make the flower pop.

-- Vince Farnsworth (mfarns@earthlink.net), November 01, 1998.

I'm afraid I'm not a fan of this. I think the red flower is nice but the composition is a bit haphazard. IMO The top elements are definately distracting and the bottom seems to close. I like the colour contrast between the red and the grey.

-- Paul Lenson (lenson@pci.on.ca), November 02, 1998.

The red flower looks great against the grey bakcground, but I too feel that the bright spots at the top is extremely distracting. Moreover, the flower is positioned too low and appears to be coming out from nowhere. Would it be possible to include a little of the stamp down below? With some adjustments, this can be a great shot.

-- Shun Cheung (shun@worldnet.att.net), November 02, 1998.

It has all been said above, but I will just 'chime-in' anyway: great photo-opportunity captured, exposure is excellent, flower too close to the bottom of the frame, and I love some burned-out highlights, so keep those.

-- Albin Hunia (a.hunia@dlg.agro.nl), November 06, 1998.

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