I saw movement

[Camellia]

I've had these tulips for a week now so the stems are drooping, but I saw movement in the curves of the stems. I've done a colour and a black and white version. Do you think one portrays a sense of movement better than the other?





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Thanks

R

[LeoLeo]

Raylee,

I think the colour one is "moving now", and the B&W is "frozen in time", but both give the sense of movement. I do like more b&w version, both are great

Leo

[wilgk]

In the B&W version I get much more a sense of the movement than the colour.
Both are really quite lovely.

[Shadowman]

I think both express the same degree of movement as far as leading lines go. If you are talking about an illusion of movement then I would have to say the b&w does. Every time you blink it takes the eyes a bit of time to adjust to the lack of hue.

[Steve S]

I guess i'm the odd one, because i prefer the color one. Great image raylee.

[MiniChris]

I know this is going to sound absolutely major picky......but from the outset of my first observation of the two, I was far more drawn to the color version with, what to me was a major exception; the centering of the tulips and the little eye drawing reflection on the perplex.

Again, this goes back to my proclivities on how balance makes or breaks the image. I love the sway as if the little fellas are dancing to a song only they can know, but I found the one closest to the left side of the frame, too close...by about 3mm +/- and while that doesn't seem like much, it's enough to split the symmetry one-sided.

I was also immediately drawn to the little flash of blue reflection at the bottom right and you know how it is when your eye gets attracted - nag, nag, nag. So, to keep myself happy, and hopefully to make this image stronger (IMO and only mine), I took some minor liberties.

[Wirefox]

Raylee, I like both but I am swaying to the colour version on this occasion.The lighting is superb and there is a really nice sinuousness to the whole thing. If you had contrived to somehow shoot this without a vase it would have been outstanding in my opinion. I don't know... rubber bands holding the stems together and plonked on an uprighty thing so that the bands could be cloned out later. Nevertheless beautifully photographed.

[Camellia]

Thanks everyone! I've been reading some books on composition and design principles that have given me some ideas. Let's see where they take me.

Thanks again for your feedback.

R

[jiro]

Both works for me, Raylee.

[Camellia]

Raylee, I like both but I am swaying to the colour version on this occasion.The lighting is superb and there is a really nice sinuousness to the whole thing. If you had contrived to somehow shoot this without a vase it would have been outstanding in my opinion. I don't know... rubber bands holding the stems together and plonked on an uprighty thing so that the bands could be cloned out later. Nevertheless beautifully photographed.

I know where you are coming from Steve about losing the vase. As a result, I've gone a bit abstract to emphasise the colour and shapes.



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Thanks

R

[Steve S]

Stick with the vase for now. It's a very beautiful shot.

[Radu Dinu Cordeanu]

Hi,
A deep pp could be an option
Somewhat like that
Be sure Your first is very good,of course.

[Wirefox]

I know where you are coming from Steve about losing the vase. As a result, I've gone a bit abstract to emphasise the colour and shapes.

I quite like that treatment. However my comment about the vase was referring to a re-shoot without the vase rather than cropping it. A straight crop loses the flow of the image. None of these comments or suggestions take away anything from the original as others have said it is a beautiful piece of work that certainly stands with the best of them on its own right.

[henry17106]

I sense movement more in the B&W, but both are beautiful.