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Topic Started: Jun 8 2009, 02:24 PM (282 Views)
forward9903
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Took a short walk at Bishan Park and managed to capture a few shots of the Lotus flowers. Appreciate comments for iimprovements.
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Is this underexposed?

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Except for #6 , the rest i find them a bit too messy ... :sweat:
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dunno if it's my monitor but they all seemed underexposed..
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I think for flowers, you need to take a different approach?

Scott Kelby advises against normal top-down, but from side. Or from bottom up. You did all these. But somehow your pictures does not stand out because of the background.. which does not make your flower stands out. To do this you need good control of DOF, where the flower is in focus and the background blurred out. #06 does this perfectly, but focus on flower is a bit off.

Secondly, I think you need to take pictures showing more of the flowers' centre (the yellowish part). Something like #03, but more..., slightly from a higher position The angle for #7 is nice. Unless it's just the flower bud like #06.

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ok, they are lotus flowers. the angles are alright but in #1, do think of a better angle to cut out the distracting railing, unless that is part of the message you want your viewer to interpret or take in. and as i'd said, yup they are lotus flowers. kind of obvious...

think about the message you want to convey and compose the shot in your mind before you take the picture.

#7 has enough mystery though a reflection of a lotus flower in the dew pool would have made it a stronger picture.
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Hi bros. Thanks for looking and the comments provided, which are constructive and straight to the point. Will keep them in mind and try again.

By the way, for pictures #1 and #2 where there are leaves surrounding the subject all around, what is the best way to isolate the subject? Will opening up the aperture to narrow the DOF work? or are there other approaches?
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to do that you can
1) pluck the flower and bring it home to shoot against a black/ white backdrop ;) just kidding
2) change your angle (if possible). in #1 if you were on a higher elevation you'd have cut away the railing and other flowers.
3) zoom in

however sometimes its more important to include a little of the background depending on the picture as that provides context. for example, a close up shot of someone at a birthday w/o the cake won't tell anyone (at a glance or if they stared forever) that it was a birthday party picture. if you zoom in too close on the lotus its pointless to tell ppl it was taken at SBG, for instance because it could have been taken in a studio.

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