golden sunflower* by Peggy by Sony Forums Challenges


11-MAY-2003	Peggy

my neighbors planted a bunch of sunflowers and they are just starting to open.
this is the actual color, which I've never seen before.

Sony Mavica CD400
1/1000s f/2.0 at 8.1mm iso100 full exif

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Sony Forums Challenges		19-May-2003 17:49
Great lighting and perspective, Peggy! Helen

Sony Forums Challenges		14-May-2003 04:11
Peggy, very nice lighting, good clarity/detail, interesting perspective and flower color. In critical mode(*), I am a little distracted by the background too...maybe Roberta's suggestion would be helpful. I experienced a background like this today...I kept realigning the subject by changing my shooting position until I got the background look that I thought was least distracting for the subject. This is still a really dramatic sunflower image. MFC

Sony Forums Challenges		14-May-2003 00:13
Peggy, I love the viewpoint you chose for this really beautiful image. My only suggestion (and I don't know how to do it!) would be to change the opacity of the background so the distant greens are more muted. This might make the sunflower stand out more in the foreground. Just a thought. Maybe you could use the eraser tool in PS, on a 10% setting to lighten the background. Very striking and pretty! Roberta F.

Sony Forums Challenges		13-May-2003 02:02
Super Lighting on this sunflower of indeed different colour ..especially the leaf holding the flower. irsh_eye

Lisa Y		12-May-2003 21:37
Wonderful sunflower image, and very untypical of how they are usually shot. I love the angle and how the backlighting causes the petals to be illuminated. Lisafx

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