Anthurium

[DanK]

Someone gave us this, and my first thought was that it looked a bit like a calla lily. However, it is an anthurium, an unrelated genus.

5 images, stacked with Zerene DMap.

C&C welcome, as always.

[Round Tuit]

This is lovely. I have never seen one of those flowers before. I might have been tempted to separate the two blooms if that is possible.

André

[JohnRostron]

Nice stack, but I agree that it would have been nice to separate the flowers.

Anthurium is in the same family as Calla. They are related.

John

[DanK]

Thanks, John and Andre. Actually, it was the graceful form the two make together that led me to take the photo. I tried a variety of different angles, which created somewhat different shapes, but settled on this one. I wouldn't want to separate the two. I did, however, use clothes pins to weight down most of the leaves that otherwise would have shown up in the background.

John, thanks for the information. I looked only at the genus and not higher. It makes sense, as the shape of a calla is quite similar.

This taught me a new Photoshop trick that I suspect many here already know. I realized only at the end that I had framed the flowers with too little negative space on the right. As this wasn't my first try, I really didn't want to start all over. Then I realized that with a background like this, I could simply extend the canvas to the right and use content-aware fill. It was just a handful of mouse clicks to add space on the right.

[Geoff F]

Obviously a scene which was fraught with potential lighting and exposure problems; but this image looks good to me.

[bambleweeney]

Image looks great to me, I really like the form of the two blooms together. Just a single bloom I think would also look pretty cool.
Nicely done indeed. I might have darkened the stems to draw attention away from them ... or not.

[pschlute]

Beautiful.

[Shadowman]

Nicely captured.

[Wavelength]

Beautiful... had you experimented this at different angles?

[DanK]

Beautiful... had you experimented this at different angles?

Yes, I rotated it and took 3 different series. This angle seemed the most attractive to me.