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I took this pictures in the garden but somehow they were a bit flat, without much contrast. I didn't want to convert them in BW so I played a little with the raw file and then with photoshop dodge and burn.








Thanks so much for your comments...

Very lovely and artistic treatment.

nice! You are really enjoying your macro lense, aren't you?

I like no 1 better than 2, I think for the composition. the droplet in 2 seems a bit lost in a large frame. the color is nice and warm, on my screen comes accross as some yellowish-brown, makes it look like autumn.

I did something similar a while ago, don't know if I can find the pictures here....

Uli

This wasn't exactly the one I was looking for, but on a similar scale as yours, a leave in the morning dew.



This one is more of a landscape, and I also played with the colors in an attempt to make it a more interesting picture



in the end I used it for my friend's wedding, you might need a magnifying glass for this one:

Thanks so much for your comments Toad, Uli...

I like your last picture a lot Uli, the idea is lovely...

About the colors, I took a color workshop few days ago, and I have been reading about colors in photography. It is amazing how you can change the mood and the message in your picture just by changing the colors. Very interesting subject in photography

Here is the original picture with a bit of makeup in the greens...

I lost a post somewhere, but I like them both. A sort of thing where you would see unicorns and elves.
Or in the woods on a misty morning.

irma, the original is very nice too! quite complementary to the first one you showed, with the fresh colors, they are like spring and fall. you know this series where someone took a picture of the same tree in four seasons? Just like that.. .Very nice work. What else did you learn in your workshop? Who was holding it? was it like a "Volkshochschule" thing?

Uli

Irma - lovely transformation - great concept. It's very beautiful.

Uli, I like #2... love the low down perspective.

NT, this is really a great idea as well... Unicorns and elves... I like it!!!

Uli, now that you comment about seasons... you are right.... It is like the same place in two different seasons... Great idea for a series too...

G is taking a course in the Volkshochschule in Nuse. It is about watercolor painting, his teacher is the painter Monika Scheer. She offered to give an intensive seminar about color. It was 10 hours training, directed mainly to painters and art teachers. G asked the teacher if I could attend the course as I took pictures and I was interested about colors as well, and she agreed.

It was my first course in German so..... much of what she was said and explained is still in G's notes, but we are planning to make a resume in Eglish for me to have it handy.

The first half of the course was about primary colors, and how you get to secondary and complementary colors. That was very interesting, at least to me, who didn't have any knowledge about mixing colors. The second half was to talk about 10 or 12 different colors, black, white and gray. What kind of emotion a given color evoke to the viewer, how they were used in middle edge, what kind of meaning they had in society and religion then, how they used them in clothes, furniture and buildings, and make a relation with the present.

It was like a little start about an interesting topic. What is more interesting about colors, I think, is how to combine them to get a pleasant harmony. If you take a picture of a red subject, let's say a flower, what background would be the best, the grass or the sky, if you had the possibility to chose, of course. In studio photography, what apples go best with the idea you want to give, red, yellow or green or which ones go better with the rest of the setup?

Still I don't know if I am messing with things I shouldn't and just go and take my pictures as always. Time will tell...


Thanks Jules...