Flower Power Series #240-1
Feb 7, 2022 14:59:20 #
Some of these are made with conventional macro lenses. Others are made with a few of my vintage soft-focus portrait lenses. Some are vignetted with melted pieces of Plexiglas in for of the lens. A few were shot with my cellphone out of my car window, on the way to work. Just a fun personal project. Some is outrageously overprocessed!
Feb 7, 2022 15:08:43 #
Wow! Very lovely work. Quite a set of inspirations. I'm particularly smitten with 1, 2, 3, & 5. I'm curious about how you seem to have limited some of the distortions to the background. Any hints?
Feb 7, 2022 15:22:07 #
Feb 7, 2022 15:38:21 #
E.L.. Shapiro wrote:
Some of these are made with conventional macro lenses. Others are made with a few of my vintage soft-focus portrait lenses. Some are vignetted with melted pieces of Plexiglas in for of the lens. A few were shot with my cellphone out of my car window, on the way to work. Just a fun personal project. Some is outrageously overprocessed!
Very nice work
Feb 7, 2022 21:32:09 #
Oh my, a wonderful set. IMHO the first is best but all are really well done
Feb 8, 2022 07:51:43 #
Feb 8, 2022 08:22:44 #
I am getting the idea you have done this once or twice. As the saying goes , it doesn’t matter what gear you are using, it,’s the photographer. I particularly like the first and fifth images.
Feb 8, 2022 10:06:27 #
No 1 is very beautiful with an outstanding flower image with striking manipulated background greens and reds harmonizing the entire image.
The rest of the pictures are quite nice with their strong colors. I might classify some as abstract images.
The rest of the pictures are quite nice with their strong colors. I might classify some as abstract images.
Feb 8, 2022 11:01:02 #
These are truly lovely. I have to admit, though, that my preference would be to leave the flowers as reality and only manipulate the background.
Feb 8, 2022 12:03:22 #
Feb 8, 2022 15:03:42 #
E.L.. Shapiro wrote:
Some of these are made with conventional macro lenses. Others are made with a few of my vintage soft-focus portrait lenses. Some are vignetted with melted pieces of Plexiglas in for of the lens. A few were shot with my cellphone out of my car window, on the way to work. Just a fun personal project. Some is outrageously overprocessed!
All I can say is WOW! and thanks for some great masking ideas.
Feb 8, 2022 15:24:37 #
Tnank y'all for o comments and preferences. I feel the Critique section is a very important part of the forum so we can all see our work through the eyes of others. As a commercial photographer, I thrive on the opinions of my clients and of course, not everyone sees things the same way, has the same tastes and vision. At the business end of my craft, I need to be flexible and be willing to try different methods, styles, approaches and accompanying techniques. Someof my commercial assignments are pretty straightforward and routine and some are more creatively challenging. In my personal work, I have more opportunities to experiment, try something different, work by trial and error and frankly just mess around and have fun.
I will usually go out and shoot flowers and trees, after a long week of shooting nuts, bolts, screwdrivers and wrenches where the clients want images "so sharp that they can see the dust"! So, I hit the gardens with soft-focus lenses, shoot abstractions and pump in colour until the computer explodes.
My granddaughter (my favourite kid in the world) is a horticulturalist and professional landscape designer. I learned a lot from her. Here scientific side likes to see extreme clinical detail- she wants to see the pollen! Her landscape side likes to seethe fuzzy shots and interesting shapes.
In the next few weeks, I will be shooting big, ugly, heavy machinery so in the Springtime you will find me in my favourite off-duty hangout- pictured below! I'll be looking for all the pretty flowers!
I will usually go out and shoot flowers and trees, after a long week of shooting nuts, bolts, screwdrivers and wrenches where the clients want images "so sharp that they can see the dust"! So, I hit the gardens with soft-focus lenses, shoot abstractions and pump in colour until the computer explodes.
My granddaughter (my favourite kid in the world) is a horticulturalist and professional landscape designer. I learned a lot from her. Here scientific side likes to see extreme clinical detail- she wants to see the pollen! Her landscape side likes to seethe fuzzy shots and interesting shapes.
In the next few weeks, I will be shooting big, ugly, heavy machinery so in the Springtime you will find me in my favourite off-duty hangout- pictured below! I'll be looking for all the pretty flowers!
Feb 8, 2022 15:35:30 #
Feb 8, 2022 16:29:04 #
E.L.. Shapiro wrote:
Some of these are made with conventional macro lenses. Others are made with a few of my vintage soft-focus portrait lenses. Some are vignetted with melted pieces of Plexiglas in for of the lens. A few were shot with my cellphone out of my car window, on the way to work. Just a fun personal project. Some is outrageously overprocessed!
Beautiful set and happy to see some of your "personal" work. You are a tremendous asset to this forum, thank you! Phil
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