flower#2 - Akio Akanuma




G2,90Sonnar,RDPII

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Posted:   16-Mar-2001

Rating: 7.15 (13 ratings)

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Almost Prize Winning

Akio... This is a tremendous shot. When I say almost prize winning it because it think that you have been a bit to hard cropping at the bottom of the picture. I would like to have seen just a little bit more of the lowest flower. I also like your frame. How do you do that? What film and what method of scanning, please?

Knut Skjærven     17-Mar-2001 at 03:25

Great Exposure

Terrific shot. How did you handle the exposure to capture the delicate highlights?

George Shadoan     17-Mar-2001 at 06:17

G2:s weakness...

G2:s weakness as a camera for macro work shows through here. I really like the frame/border in this print, and the lighting is great but having seen umpteen superb flowershots in my day I find this a run of the mill shot. It is hard to see what you have focused on and there is no obvious point for the eye to rest upon. The grey background is too dull and to apparent in this picture. With a "proper" macro lens you could have had a shallower depth of field making the background blur out even more. Finally I think the cropping of the upper part of the flower is disturbing.

Henke     17-Mar-2001 at 07:25

Call It Macro

Who's said G2 can't do Macro. Akio, you have a very good hand. Focus is very accurate. Colour is very realistic. Excellent picture indeed.

Chuchai Chansangavej     18-Mar-2001 at 21:02

This is Akio

Thank you for all comments. I try to shot macro objects by G2 again and again. because, It's interesting , imaginative, and exciting.

Akio Akanuma     18-Mar-2001 at 21:20

The Window

I registered to this site just so I could comment on this picture! Contrary to some other opinions, I *love* the framing of this! It makes me feel I am looking through a window into some secret place, and that there is more there, that I can't see. If the flower on the left were any further to the right, I think the composition would be "flatter" and more "bland". To get the very last of its left-most petal in, there would also be much more grey background to the left, which would compromise the pink-left / grey-right contrast. I do wonder how the picture would look overall if the lower edge were a little lower. The only way to accomplish this, however, would be to move the camera back, and that might lose the "in-your-face" closeness. Overall, I just love it - even though (or perhaps because) I normally don't like still-lifes. Nik.

Nik Trevallyn-Jones     11-Jul-2001 at 22:40

Debate

Clearly a stimulating image. I thought very hard about it and have read teh other comments with interest. What remains for me is the initial impact of he shot especially as it is presented. This counters the DOF questions (too much out of focus, but that cannot be helped) and whether more bottom or left petal would help. The scan suffers from what I believe are technically referred to as jaggies, but the image survives this and still has great strength. I think the strength comes from the lighting and the composition. Good work Akio.

Charez Golvala     12-Jul-2001 at 03:09

Loved for a long time...

Akio, I gave this image a '9" long ago when I first saw it. The placement, the background, the range of tones all add up to a real winner. And I like the customized framing too. Good that you used RDP and not RVP for this. Would have lost a lot of the pastel tones otherwise. Great job. Now put that digital camera down you've been using lately and let's see more G stuff from you! Even more shots of Luke. How is he anyway?

Richard Sintchak     12-Jul-2001 at 03:45