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With this photo, I attempt to show my viewer the complexity in seemingly simple things. On first glance, flowers are pretty basic, though beautiful things of nature. On closer examination, a single flower reveals much more complexity than any first glance can reveal. I would like to share this experience with my viewer by sharing this photograph and this series.
The negative space, or in other words, all the white, is completely intentional from an artistic point of view. I tried adding various backgrounds behind the flower. Some in focus, some completely out of focus. However, I failed to ever truly enjoy the results. The colour's always conflicted with the flowers’, or the background was just simply too distracting, or gained too much attention when I looked at it. This series is simply about this particular flower, to enshrine its short existence into an infinite display of beauty. Give it a full view, and enjoy this flower in all of its glory, for the flower is the pure subject in this piece.
The colours are 100% realistic with very little added saturation. I placed a 1 metre x 0.5 metre x 2 milimetres piece of paper behind the flower when I photographed it out in a garden with my camera on a tripod. Later in Photoshop, I was easily able to remove the piece of white paper from the camera raw and begin work. A whole too many variations in colour, saturation, etc made themselves known. I had a real tough time deciding such things as colour, hues, and saturation. In the end, I decided to leave it as it was in reality. I spent a good amount of time smoothing out the edges. I duplicated the layer with the flower and applied a gaussian blur with a 14 pixel radius, then placed this layer behind the original to add a sort of softness around the flower's edges, leading it nicely into the white background.
Additionally, I'd like to point out the heart in the bottom right of the flower. Quite accidental.
Personally, I am rather fond of the photographs in this series. I hope that you will critique this photo thoroughly with my intentions in mind. I hope you enjoy it!
Photo #1, Part One of a two part series of 4 photographs.
Other photos in this series:
#2a Allureiticali
#3b Allureaticala
#4b Allureaontala
The negative space, or in other words, all the white, is completely intentional from an artistic point of view. I tried adding various backgrounds behind the flower. Some in focus, some completely out of focus. However, I failed to ever truly enjoy the results. The colour's always conflicted with the flowers’, or the background was just simply too distracting, or gained too much attention when I looked at it. This series is simply about this particular flower, to enshrine its short existence into an infinite display of beauty. Give it a full view, and enjoy this flower in all of its glory, for the flower is the pure subject in this piece.
The colours are 100% realistic with very little added saturation. I placed a 1 metre x 0.5 metre x 2 milimetres piece of paper behind the flower when I photographed it out in a garden with my camera on a tripod. Later in Photoshop, I was easily able to remove the piece of white paper from the camera raw and begin work. A whole too many variations in colour, saturation, etc made themselves known. I had a real tough time deciding such things as colour, hues, and saturation. In the end, I decided to leave it as it was in reality. I spent a good amount of time smoothing out the edges. I duplicated the layer with the flower and applied a gaussian blur with a 14 pixel radius, then placed this layer behind the original to add a sort of softness around the flower's edges, leading it nicely into the white background.
Additionally, I'd like to point out the heart in the bottom right of the flower. Quite accidental.
Personally, I am rather fond of the photographs in this series. I hope that you will critique this photo thoroughly with my intentions in mind. I hope you enjoy it!
Photo #1, Part One of a two part series of 4 photographs.
Other photos in this series:
#2a Allureiticali
#3b Allureaticala
#4b Allureaontala
Image size
1440x960px 1.02 MB
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wow i love the blank bg, it adds so much!