Smoke Pedal* by ctfchallenge

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15-NOV-2006	BMurphy

Smoke Pedal*

This represents a project I have been working on-and failing at- for the past few months. The idea was to get enough smokey flowers to make a gallery. So far it has been as tough and frustrating as you can imagine.

Canon EOS 350D
1/20s f/2.8 at 100.0mm iso100 full exif

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ctfchallenge		23-Jun-2007 11:44
I think a longer dof would help this shot. It would be nice to see it all in focus. Britt

ctfchallenge		22-Jun-2007 10:05
Very nice in its simplicity. Fred

Guest		22-Jun-2007 04:02
Thanks tv. I think I was pushing my luck here a little bit on the empty space, but I wanted it to look tall. I found that a crop made it top-heavy, more like a mushroom than a flower. And on that point, its smoke not glass.

ctfchallenge		22-Jun-2007 03:47
Hello, B. When you say smokey flower, do you mean the glass kind or something much more transitory.. like smoke. I can't tell for sure. Anyway, this is a good one, and it is teaching me something that has been long in coming... it has to do with the blank space above the primary substance of the image. I would always crop it out and then I would puzzle about why the image looked so cramped. Now I see with your help that the empty space allows the image to grow in the mind and in the eye. Its an important aesthetic variable that I had not given enough attention to. Thanks for the lesson. -tv

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