The Valley of the Shadow (monochrome' ish)

[JBW]

Dave is one of my kindest critics and has amazingly sharp eyes. Here is the shot with the offending white dot removed.

[Shadowman]

Nice composition.

[mugge]

Brian, a B&W flower. I am shocked and horrified. I like it though, not so sure about the black in the right bottom corner. That is only my opinion.
Cheers Ole

[JBW]

Brian, a B&W flower. I am shocked and horrified. I like it though, not so sure about the black in the right bottom corner. That is only my opinion.
Cheers Ole

Not a black and white flower. Look again, there is just a wash of yellow/orange in the flower. Agreed that the bottom right is debatable.

[JohnRostron]

Brian, I am being increasingly convinced (even impressed) by your low key images.

John

[xpatUSA]

Not a black and white flower. Look again, there is just a wash of yellow/orange in the flower. Agreed that the bottom right is debatable.

Brian, I couldn't resist peeking with Show Image: there are 6410 separate colors in the image and the flower hue, at ~30 degrees around the HSB color circle, is pretty much orange. The saturation of the lighter flower parts is ~60% - so more than just a wash, eh? But the brightness is quite low key which could give it a washed-out appearance.

The resident pedant strikes again . . .

[Dave Humphries]

I like it Brian,

That is; apart from the bright white dot (stuck pixel?) on the leaf (at shadow boundary), which could be easily removed with a spot removal tool or simple clone job.

Well seen and captured.

[JBW]

Brian, I am being increasingly convinced (even impressed) by your low key images.

John

thank -you. It is an place I seem to need to be in. It is certainly a challenging learning curve.

[JBW]

I like it Brian,

That is; apart from the bright white dot (stuck pixel?) on the leaf, which could be easily removed with a spot removal tool or simple clone job.

You know my eyes. I didn't even see it till you mentioned it. i shall remove it.

[JBW]

Brian, I couldn't resist peeking with Show Image: there are 6410 separate colors in the image and the flower hue, at ~30 degrees around the HSB color circle, is pretty much orange. The saturation of the lighter flower parts is ~60% - so more than just a wash, eh? But the brightness is quite low key which could give it a washed-out appearance.

The resident pedant strikes again . . .

Strike again and again. I would never have guessed that many separate colours.

[Dave Humphries]

You know my eyes. I didn't even see it till you mentioned it.

I'd better not mention the ant(?) peeking in to view on the left then

Only just confirmed what it was because your de-spotted version is much bigger.

[JBW]

I'd better not mention the ant(?) peeking in to view on the left then

Only just confirmed what it was because your de-spotted version is much bigger.

Maybe i should move this shot to the bug thread? But then bugs can live in the valley of the shadow. I am curious. I took the same shot, loaded it back into gimp, cloned exported and tiny picked it into here. This must mean that my blog scales my shot?