Red Flare III:

Film: Fujichrome Velvia. Pentax ZX-5N. 80-200mm zoom lens handheld. On-camera spotmeter reading from the red flower with no interpretation. Aperture opening around 5.6. No other exposure data was recorded. The red flower was hard to scan.

-- Bahman Farzad (cpgbooks@mindspring.com), November 13, 1998

Answers

You've got my full immediate attention with this one, Bahman. The dynamics of this image are wonderful; brilliant color, amazing contrast, cirlcles, lines, you name it. You inspire me to take more pictures of flowers. My eye seems to begging for a touch more space to the left of the flower, but its almost insiginficant. Great Shot!

-- Robert Pailes (rpailes@peganet.com), November 13, 1998.

While your other posts have truely inspired me, this one falls a little short. I don't like the sparkly water around the flower. It draws my eye and interferes with my overall enjoyment.

-- Bill (Bill.Wyman@utas.edu.au), November 13, 1998.

Bahman, I like all three of your photographs of this flower. In each one the flower just glows and has almost a surreal feel to it. I don't mind the bright sparkles in the background on this one. I think these bright areas help convey the brilliant quality of light emanating from the flower.

-- Barbara Kelly (kellys@alaska.net), November 13, 1998.

Is this the Rocky sequel. I liked your first image of the "red flare" a little less your second and this image leaves me flat. I actually like some of your other photos a lot better than this one. The reasons: a. this image seems to be much granier than the others

-- Gary Whalen (whalen@circle.net), November 13, 1998.

Great image. has a nice "60's' feel to it.

-- sheldon hambrick (shambric@us.oracle.com), November 16, 1998.

Nice work. Was this digitally sharpened ? I think you'll need to crop the top off down to the bright patch. This should balance it with the other bright patches on the right side which are also cropped and act somewhat as a framing.

-- Paul Lenson (lenson@pci.on.ca), November 16, 1998.

Thanks for your input. I had a very hard time scanning the image so that I get the flower right. I had to sharpen to get some kind of tone separation. Although the image is not as artistic or as elegant as others (Red Flare and Red Flare II), however, as Barbara Kelly put it sparkels are eye-catching and I think they have a unique quality that lift-up the image. Thanks again. Bahman.

-- Bahman Frazad (cpgbooks@mindspring.com), November 17, 1998.

An excellent image, but either over sharpened or over compressed. The lilypads have a really odd texture...

-- Adam Harrison (eros@ncd.com), November 17, 1998.