Doing some experimentation with my point-and-shoot digital. Trying to work harder at my photography... creating photos rather than just capturing them, if that makes sense. Trying to improve my composition, etc... also trying to familiarize myself more with color, as i shoot primarily B&W for reasons of developing and printing my own photos. Your comments are appreciated. Thanks! : ) Aurore
"creating photos rather than just capturing them, if that makes sense"... Of course it does ! That's how one builds his style, which he can later carry with him anywhere to *capture* images his way...
Besides that, it seems you are using a non-diffused torshlight here, given the shape of the hot spot in the central area. Well, that's what's wrong, and the reflection on the glass is also too harsh. I would suggest you use a more powerful light source (higher wattage) and diffuse it with tracing paper.
Aurore, I can certainly see that you have been thinking about this before shooting it. I'm not certain what you tried to put into it, but what I see is a bent rose with its own huge threatening shadow looming behind it. It is almost as if the flower lets its head dangle because it gave up the hope to live (or love (since that's often the symbol where the rose is used for). The huge shadow behind it only strenghtens that idea of foreboding, the idea of giving up hope. Again, I don't know if that's what you tried to put into it, but for me this composition works really well. What Aiman suggested about using a reflector might work well to get a little more light on the rose and the glass. Not much, but very subtle. One other idea might be to let the rose 'face' a bit more to the lens, to get more depth in the flower. Just my ideas on what I think of as a really strong and dramatic photo. Regards!
Even though, the flower is way heavier in color weight and taking the eye down to the right, but the shadows are pulling it back... there are so much movement here. You may have just added a relfector to shine the glass left side, a white rim of light would have helped to the eye more inside the frame... I love the mood
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