James Newman
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Proof that I have neglected my duties in the flowerbed as of late.
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Three stages of a weed's life
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Kathy Rappaport
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I stared at this for several minutes. I like the composition but the more I stared at the dandelion, I found the dead head distracting or I found the green stem distractiing. And yet I like it.
I think that I'd crop either the dead head or the green stem. Not keep both. The dandelion is perfect and I love the bokeh.
I stared at this for several minutes. I like the composition but the more I stared at the dandelion, I found the dead head distracting or I found the green stem distractiing. And yet I like it.
I think that I'd crop either the dead head or the green stem. Not keep both. The dandelion is perfect and I love the bokeh.
James Newman
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Thanks Kathy. I know what you mean. I am distracted everytime I look in my yard and see these things. I will try some cloning or something to see what it does for me. I like the green one better than the dead one personally.
James
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Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
James,
This is beautiful. It stands well on its own. It just needs to be printed 16x20 and given a good matt. I'd not change what you did, unless you cheated us and cropped more of the stems than you should have!
I think this is something that you might work on more. After all you have a great feeling for this and there are many more forms and relationships you might seek to get into a photograph. It might be interesting, for example, to have more of the stems. You also can pat yourself on the back for the sheer brilliance of the subject. No money to the flower shop, you don't have to mess around with your wife's flowers, and the flowers will always come to seed*
Asher
*as they do not need sex. For them everything is on auto. The pollen, (male) does land on the stigma and then send in it's little tube, but the process stops short of consummation and that is enough for the dandelion to get going, screw sex it says and simply parthenogenesis takes over.
Andy brown
Well-known member
Lovely shot James.
I'm a bit intrigued by the way the seed head and the spent one are sharing the plane of focus yet the spent seed head appears to be well in front of the other.
Very simple yet effective image.
I'm a bit intrigued by the way the seed head and the spent one are sharing the plane of focus yet the spent seed head appears to be well in front of the other.
Very simple yet effective image.
James Newman
Member
Thank you for your comments. There was no more stem in the image that I hid by cropping. There was a dark blotch in the very lower left corner that was removed by cropping and there was one extra small piece of green stem in the lower right corner that really distracted so I cloned it out as well. I did not know all of that Asher, about their reproductive ability, but it certainly makes sense and explains why it is so difficult to get rid of them. If it were up to me I would not bother.
The dead, spent seed head's stem was for sure a little bit in front of the other one but the front portion of the white seed head, because it was so big and round, protruded outwards towards the camera enough to where it was in the same portion of the focus plane as part of the dead one.
Alas, I cannot at this time try a reshoot. The poor things are now gone due to my digging, turning, weeding, and placement of fresh, new mulch. Don't worry though. I am such a reluctant gardener that it should not be too long before I have more to choose from and shoot.
James Newman
The dead, spent seed head's stem was for sure a little bit in front of the other one but the front portion of the white seed head, because it was so big and round, protruded outwards towards the camera enough to where it was in the same portion of the focus plane as part of the dead one.
Alas, I cannot at this time try a reshoot. The poor things are now gone due to my digging, turning, weeding, and placement of fresh, new mulch. Don't worry though. I am such a reluctant gardener that it should not be too long before I have more to choose from and shoot.
James Newman