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Debra Garside
{K:2869} 1/8/2008
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Hi Tim: Firstly congrats on all your recent and much deserved awards. I want to thank you especially for sharing your technique with everyone. I am now more inspired than ever to attempt some macro images. :) Debra
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Ms. Mel Brackstone
{K:5285} 7/24/2006
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I'm so pleased I stopped at the home page today, otherwise I would have missed your orchids. Beautiful work Tim, and thanks so much for your explanations. They are very illuminating! Now all I need to do is practice practice practice!
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Tiger Lily
{K:10966} 6/9/2006
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Tim,
Thanks!! I'll give that a try.
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Tim Long
{K:9228} 6/8/2006
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Thanks so much, Lily! Re: overexposure, I do underexpose by one-to-two stops to avoid burnout. The light for this was also very diffuse to avoid hotspots. High DOF was important here, but I then had to control the background. A significant underexposure with increased contrast in PS helped separate the subject from the ground. I hope this is useful. Thanks for your comment!
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Tiger Lily
{K:10966} 6/8/2006
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Explosion of color and such fine details. Long exposures indoors with very little lights yields me overexposed images. Is there a trick to this technique? I use f/32.
Beautiful shot!
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Tim Long
{K:9228} 2/15/2006
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Thanks so much for your appreciative comment, Anna. I think that the black-ground's contrast really makes flowers pop.
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Anna Bergel
{K:614} 2/14/2006
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fantastic detail. Nice lighting as well. I always love shooting flowers on a black background. you have some fantastic images. well done
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Mark Longo
{K:12760} 2/8/2006
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Wow. ..this one is beyond words, clearly surpassing even your PoD awarded photo, to my eye. The backlighting has brought a spectacular glow to the inside of the blossoms. The blue-hued highlights on the exterior of the blossoms shows the flower's incredible detail and intricately laced veining. A wonder of nature. Above all, you have gotten the lighting perfect here. Is it daylight? Use of the black mate cloth was an inspiration. I must try this myself sometime. Tremendous work, should be rated an 8 of a possible 7! A home run and a fave.
Mark
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John Nobody
{K:4914} 2/8/2006
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Amazing result, both pictures are very good. congratulations, i will try to use this tecnich. Thanks for sharing, my best regards.
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Giuseppe Guadagno
{K:34002} 2/8/2006
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This one is as beautiful as the next awarded. You don't see me but I am very hoften visiting your home. I love floral pictures and yours ... I can't find an adequate ajective. Often I see nice flowers photos and I think: "I too will try to do it". But when I see yours I can only admire, feel happy and think nothing.
Thanks.
Giuseppe
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Kathy Hillard
{K:25721} 2/8/2006
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Ooops! Now I see that you didn't cut out these two shots, but used the black background. I should have read further before posting my comment. This is beautiful also! Nicely done on both counts!
Kathy
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Bill Morgenstern
{K:7157} 2/3/2006
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MAN - This is great! You have captured every detail and subtle color in the petals of this beauty. The lighting is just amazing. I'm mystified how you do this with such a long exposure without getting an awful look to the black background. I'm also curious about your light source as I see no shadows to really detract forom detail throughout. I hope you can fill me in on the technique.
Thanks Tim - Bill
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Jeanette Hägglund
{K:59855} 1/30/2006
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SO b e a u t i f u l - great lightning on this beauty! 7+
jeanette
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Tim Long
{K:9228} 1/27/2006
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Thanks so much for your comment, Jan. I think you are absolutely correct, that I did oversharpen this one. I was trying to compensate for the dulling effect that can occur with size reduction and upload but went a bit too far. Thank you for your honest opinion, and for your support of the image despite the technical flaws. I will try to upload a finer version.
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Kambiz K
{K:37420} 1/24/2006
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Indeed you managed to capture the beauty of those flowers.
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Debarshi Duttagupta
{K:26815} 1/24/2006
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Superb macro.
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Jim Budrakey
{K:24393} 1/24/2006
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Whew! Beautiful. I assume by natural light you mean window light? The lighting is superb. It really came out well. Very nice work indeed.
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Jan Graziano
{K:17920} 1/24/2006
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The colors and the lighting are strikingly beautiful against the black background. I do like the composition; however, on my screen the outer edges of the petals appear to be just a little oversharp. Of course, that could be a result of the light striking off of the thin edges of the petals and not due to oversharpening. I have had petal appear to be oversharpened when I haven't done anything to the photo except crop and size. In any event I really like this shot and can certainly picture it hanging on a wall. Color, lighting, and composition alone leads me to send this one to my favorites. Jan
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