Narcissus blooming

[DanK]

White flowers are tough, but this was the only thing indoors this evening. This is a stack of 14 images, stacked in Zerene DMap and retouched from a PMax stack to lessen haloing. C&C welcome as always.

[purplehaze]

Impressive job on the whites, Dan, but it's not my favorite of your compositions.

[Shadowman]

Nice capture.

[bnnrcn]

That big green leaf(?) in the FG spoils the composition a bit but the flowers look lovely

[DanK]

That big green leaf(?) in the FG spoils the composition a bit but the flowers look lovely

Thanks for the feedback. That was part of the experiment. It's a sepal--the green, leaf-like structure that encloses the bud before it opens. I was intrigued by the lines and textures in the sepal--it's more interesting that way than the petals--so I deliberately positioned it this way. So your vote is no. I wonder if that is why Janis didn't like it.

[bnnrcn]

May be

Thanks for the feedback. That was part of the experiment. It's a sepal--the green, leaf-like structure that encloses the bud before it opens. I was intrigued by the lines and textures in the sepal--it's more interesting that way than the petals--so I deliberately positioned it this way. So your vote is no. I wonder if that is why Janis didn't like it.

[Wavelength]

Beautiful

[IzzieK]

Very nice, it would have been nicer if they are pure white? There is a yellowish tinge at my end here...did you use tungsten lighting? Just curious...a little bit of the sepal might be more nicer but overpowering is the case here...

[DanK]

Thanks, all. Izzie, is your monitor calibrated? The photos were shot under halogen lighting, but I always shoot a neutral card (a whiBal) and adjust the white balance at the beginning of processing. I sometimes adjust from there, but this time I didn't: the images were all set to the whiBal white balance.

[IzzieK]

Thanks, all. Izzie, is your monitor calibrated? The photos were shot under halogen lighting, but I always shoot a neutral card (a whiBal) and adjust the white balance at the beginning of processing. I sometimes adjust from there, but this time I didn't: the images were all set to the whiBal white balance.

Yes... it is. Just be sure, this is the colour temperature of halogen and tungsten:



Both are 3200°K. Your image here is at the end of the nearly white spectrum but not quite white...there are some portions that are white at the sides. I may nave worded my message wrong, but it looks like light that is why I said tungsten.

[purplehaze]

I wonder if that is why Janis didn't like it.

Yes, Dan, I think so. Not that I don't appreciate you including it, because I do, I just think I would like to see more of it and the framing petals.

[purplehaze]

I just made another double post. Does anyone else running Firefox have trouble posting to this forum?

[IzzieK]

I just made another double post. Does anyone else running Firefox have trouble posting to this forum?

Just refrain from pressing Reply twice and you'll be right...

[DanK]

I just made another double post. Does anyone else running Firefox have trouble posting to this forum?

yes. Sometimes after I submit a comment, it returns to the screen with the typed comment, not to the forum, even though the comment has been posted. If I hit submit again, it double-posts. This is a relatively new problem for me.

Not that I don't appreciate you including it, because I do, I just think I would like to see more of it and the framing petals.

Thanks. I took another, more loosely framed series. I'll fiddle with them and see what I get.

[purplehaze]

yes. Sometimes after I submit a comment, it returns to the screen with the typed comment, not to the forum, even though the comment has been posted. If I hit submit again, it double-posts. This is a relatively new problem for me.

That's exactly what has been happening to me. I have learned to trust that it posted the first time.

I took another, more loosely framed series. I'll fiddle with them and see what I get.

Look forward to seeing them.