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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 4/11/2007
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Thanks a lot for the nice and detailed comment, Andre!
The concept of beauty is just... beautiful ;-) and even if the viewer doesn't know about my own vision at the time of the shot, I still do. So, as already said to Annemette, such photos that do not exactly represent what we wanted to do, are perhaps nice to look at, but they should give us much to think about, like for example, why didn't it turn the way I wanted it?
In this thread of thoughts beauty simply doesn't suffice for improvement of the own skills when it is not intentional. So we come to one of the most important rules: It is not *what* but *how* you capture it. And thus, to improve the "how" I have to apply some certain portion of self-criticism.
This is the reason for all my comments on errors, failures, and other catastrophes on my own images. Oh well, catastrophes are good for learning too. :-D
Best wishes,
Nick
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 4/11/2007
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Thank you very much for defending my photo in front of my merciless eye, Annemette. It is only that it doesn't represent the intention I had at that time, and thus it is a problem for me, which I have to accept. The look and feel is the one important thing, the own vision is another. And between them there is a range of more or less good shots - shots that are perhaps nice to see, but not really perfect. And as such "nice" but rather incidental results are not reproducible, they can't make me to a "steadily good" photographer. Anyway, I like it too, or else I would never post it, but a bit of self-criticism is always healthy.
Best wishes,
Nick
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Andre Denis
{K:66327} 4/11/2007
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Hi Nick,
Still, the selective focus does look completely intentional and even the left green branch doesn't take away anything from the beauty of the image IMO. Maybe it didn't turn out exactly as planned, but a viewer doesn't know that.
It looks good to me :)
Andre
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Annemette Rosenborg Eriksen
{K:55244} 4/10/2007
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Well, Nikos, I donīt see it as a problem due to the lighter green tones in that particular branch that balance well with the coloured blurry background. For that reason it doesnīt seem disturbing that itīs slightly out of focus.
Best wishes
Annemette
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 4/10/2007
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Thank you very much, Mark!
Nick
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 4/10/2007
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Thank you very much for the nice comment, Dave!
Nick
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 4/10/2007
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Thank you very much, Andre, for the nice detailed comment. I also favor a very selective focus from time to time. The problem here was that it was a biut too selective and left the green branch at the bottom left on the foreground quite unfocused, as I already said to Annemette.
The color palette ist something special of Tuscany and so I thought that all those tones of olive-green should dominate the photo together with the light of the south at the background.
Many thanks again and have a nice day,
Nick
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 4/10/2007
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Thanks a lot Annemette. I have some problems with the green branch at the front, on the left bottom corner, bas it is quite out of focus, but all in all I like it too.
Have a nice day,
Nick
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Mark Drago
{K:10902} 4/9/2007
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lovely shot Nick
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Dave Stacey
{K:150877} 4/9/2007
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I like your colours and selective focus in this one, Nick!
Dave.
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Andre Denis
{K:66327} 4/9/2007
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Very nice Nick!
As you know, I favour this kind of macro work with this kind of DOF and the nice rich greens.
The light in the unfocused background works beautifully to offset the rich green in the foreground. Once again you manage to come up with a colour palette that is not often seen.
Andre
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Annemette Rosenborg Eriksen
{K:55244} 4/8/2007
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Great DOF, light and balance in this photo, Nikos. Paintinglike as I do like.
Best wishes
Annemette
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