A pretty couple in San Francisco

[Asher Kelman]

I love irises.

Dietes grandiflora Fairy Iris, originally from South Africa, grows abundantly in the sunshine. Cities and companies like to use them en mass to decorate roadside flower beds. p

They produces lovely white blooms with 6 outer white petals as the base and then 3 central pale magenta tinged curved inner petals. The leaves bear the a bold central golden yellow stoke of color.

Walking along the Embarcadero in San Francisco, I stopped for a cold beer and on the table the had places a drinking glass with two of these flowers.

Asher Kelman: A Pretty Couple

Embarcadero, San Francisco 2015
Sony A7R Leica 50mm 1.4 Summilux M

out of the camera jpg, no corrections



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I really like the soft background with diagonal swathes of light dark bluish bands. However, the picture lacks unity. That means a little more of efforts at both cleqning up the image to simplify the b.g. and also adding a light linear set of strokes to fix the flowers to the fabric of the b.g. geometry.

Asher

 

[Asher Kelman]

Asher Kelman: A Pretty Couple

Embarcadero, San Francisco 2015
Sony A7R Leica 50mm 1.4 Summilux M

out of the camera jpg, Topaz Clarity & Impression
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[Paul Abbott]

I absolutely love it when this way of capturing a picture happens. There you are busying yourself with other ideals and this happens...
It's a nice image, Asher. the background colour is nice and neutral and offsets the colour of the flowers. Interesting effect in the last image and it does no harm with a subject like this...

 

[Asher Kelman]

Thanks for the visit! Yes, great things happen on the Embarcadero. One can go every day and have no need to shot anything else!

Asher

 

[Tom dinning]

DAmn! You had me going for a moment.
Thought it might be something worth looking at.
Instead it turns out to be a couple of flowers.
Bring on the women!!
That second effort reminds me of our beloved Maggie.

 

[Asher Kelman]

DAmn! You had me going for a moment.
Thought it might be something worth looking at.
Instead it turns out to be a couple of flowers.
Bring on the women!!
That second effort reminds me of our beloved Maggie.

Women? They are flowers too but take much longer to blossom and then they do last much longer. I will see if I can find a few where the petals fell off!

Maggie? Well she does have a unique appreciation for sets of pastel and complentary colors and for me that good as I use too many black or else pure white background. Maggie brings me a while new palette!

Asher

 

[Cem_Usakligil]

A very nice piece of art and a catchy title.

 

[Asher Kelman]

A very nice piece of art and a catchy title.

Cem, I appreciate you visiting. I knew folk would expect an exotic couple, perhaps one in thongs.

Asher

 

[Wolfgang Plattner]

Hi,

well, I'm not pleased with that photo.
It is flat and somehow lifeless ... sorry.

 

[Charlotte Thompson]

Asher I hope you excuse me for this rendition of your top photo of the Orchid. I did like the photo but Wolfgang was right. It did seem a little flat so I did some "witchy poo magic and came up with this idea. I think may lend more drama to the photo -like a shot of Russian Vodka. Again just an idea. Forgive me if I over step. Charlotte-

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[Asher Kelman]

Hi,

well, I'm not pleased with that photo.
It is flat and somehow lifeless ... sorry.

Huh! I tried to integrate the foreground to the background esthetically. Never meant to effect depth! I agree is pretty flat. You don't like mere "pretty"!

Asher

 

[Charlotte Thompson]

Asher

I'm thinking I should ban myself until I stop being so cheeky, until then and when I learn my lesson I will un-ban myself.

Charlotte-

 

[Asher Kelman]

I liked your intervention and design. The role of the b.g. In the composition is interesting.

Sometimes we want to

1. Sow the subject to the hues/forms/idiomatatic fabric of the b.g.
   
   
2. Heighten such differences
   
   
3. Provide some counterpoint or response to it!

Maggie Terkecki is very sensitive to the latter and may use complementary pastel colors to unify and soften the b.g. without taking away the importance of the subject. In a way, she throws a veil of almost transparent silk over the picture.

You've gone for increasing depth perception which paradoxically is almost absent in your own compositions shared here!

Asher

 

[Charlotte Thompson]

I un-ban myself now…

Asher

It depends on the subject and if I think it warrants something deeper- My rendition of your lovely orchid photo was just to show something a bit different cause that's me…