Another Sunflowers in the Dunes Shot + 2nd Edit
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AlanLichty
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This is seriously nice Monika - I like the layers of interest in this comp ranging from the foreground blooms up through the dunes and the subtle but engaging tints in the clouds. Well seen.
Ditto what Alan said. Like your processing as well.
Douglas Sherman
Staff
This is really nice, Monika. I love the grays in the clouds and dunes.
MonikaC
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I try to keep the processing minimal.
Thanks, you 3. At the time, I was wishing that the flowers were facing me, but they make an implied leading line into the dunes, I think.
This is the nicest of the lot. Love it
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Jim Dockery
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On first glance I thought this is my favorite you've posted from that morning (and I still do in many ways). Then I read Tim's idea and thought "No way, I like the front flowers", then I looked again and thought that he had a point but I say the opposite of loosing it, I want more. I think the composition would be complete if we could see the whole flower. Of course I don't know what was actually there (like a bunch more flowers that would need to be fully included ad infinitum), so that might not have worked.
MonikaC
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In this spot, there was a lot of bare ground between the bunches of flowers. I first walked further back to get some bigger bunches, but the composition just didn't work from there. To the left, there were many more, but the dunes were not so interesting if I shot in this direction, and if I turned 90 degrees to get more interesting dunes, I lost the color in the sky.
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Hey Monika a very cool composition with the way the flower bunches lead of from front to rear. But... the first thing that grabbed my eyes was the cut off flowers in the front. Just an inch or two more at the bottom would have nailed this one. If you had backed up just a foot more I think it would have been perfect.
To Tim's suggestion, it has the added benefit of losing some of those footprints on the ground too as it looks like someone had walked close to that front group of flowers.
This is still very nice of course as is.
To Tim's suggestion, it has the added benefit of losing some of those footprints on the ground too as it looks like someone had walked close to that front group of flowers.
This is still very nice of course as is.
MonikaC
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Try this out. Those would have been my footprints.......Hey Monika a very cool composition with the way the flower bunches lead of from front to rear. But... the first thing that grabbed my eyes was the cut off flowers in the front. Just an inch or two more at the bottom would have nailed this one. If you had backed up just a foot more I think it would have been perfect.
To Tim's suggestion, it has the added benefit of losing some of those footprints on the ground too as it looks like someone had walked close to that front group of flowers.
This is still very nice of course as is.
AlanLichty
Moderator
I like what you did with this edit.
Douglas Sherman
Staff
Sunflowers always turn to face into the sun, Monika so maybe a sunset image from this location if you want to see their little faces. Nevertheless this is really a nice image.
I sure like the edit Monica, I think that really improves the original quite a bit. One last suggestion now that the foreground flowers are gone, I would crop just a bit off the right and bottom. Just enough to slide that right background flower a bit into the right 1/3rd of the frame.
MonikaC
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Yes, I know that sunflowers are heliotropic. Sunset tends to get pretty windy there, so it's hard to get the little guys to stay still. Or to convince me to take my camera out of the pack!
Douglas Sherman
Staff
I understand.
MonikaC
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While I was cloning out the bottom bunch of sunnies & working the crop, I decided to do what I could have done at the scene.......I moved the bottom rock.
Jim Dockery
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Nice work. Isn’t it fun playing God in PP?
AlanLichty
Moderator
I like the newest edit better - less repeating stone patterns from the cloning and the bigger rock adds foreground interest.
MonikaC
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I have been known to remove rocks from a scene before I photograph, so I figured moving it PP wasn't such a big deal....... & didn't have to clone out more footprints