Don't Look Mad Aussie!

[Iguanasan]

Ok, you can look. It's just you've been complaining about all the spring flowers and I didn't want to offend you. This shot is about as near to perfection as I've ever achieved I think and so I need to know what, if anything, I'm missing. The only post I've done is a touch of curves and a bit of unsharp mask, a crop and a border. The version SOOC looks pretty good to my eye too so have at it. Rip it apart! :)

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[Marko]

Wonderful shot Iggy:highfive:

Very very little I'd do here. I might up the highlights on curves or levels by 5%, and I'd likely crop an inch or 2 off the top.....but this is very well done. I'd say it's in your top 5 iggy :thumbup:

[lhosphotography]

Very nice Iggy...looks perfect to my virgin eye!
Well done.

[Mad Aussie]

Ok, you can look. It's just you've been complaining about all the spring flowers and I didn't want to offend you.

Man ... you make one little comment about being amused by Canadians and their obsession with spring and it gets twisted around to I hate flowers :headslap:

I defy you to find a post of mine that is complaining about flowers ;)

[Mad Aussie]

It is a good shot Iggy!

So little to critique at all. The only tiny thing I might suggest is the flowers could do with a bit more room below them in this crop. But that's a personal preference. Really well done.

[Bambi]

wow Iggy!! this is beautiful! Print it and frame it. :1st:

[Iguanasan]

Thanks, everyone. I appreciate the comments. I found a new "feature" today. Manual focus. I had come to rely on the automatic focus and the darn focus points, however, with manual focus I think I can do better than the camera. Here's the original, unprocessed (well, converted to JPG from RAW) shot.

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4043/4494718082_dd3d3f73bf.jpg

[Iguanasan]

Man ... you make one little comment about being amused by Canadians and their obsession with spring and it gets twisted around to I hate flowers :headslap:

I defy you to find a post of mine that is complaining about flowers ;)

Only teasing ;) I'm generally not particularly creative with the snappy comebacks but had to say something about it after spending most of the morning shooting flowers. :headslap:

[Michaelaw]

I would have posted this straight into the "Show your flowers" thread Iggy. Nice capture indeed :thumbup:

[Iguanasan]

Thanks, Michael. I guess I was wondering what else I could have done better and from everyone's very nice comments I feel that my instinct was correct, it could be tweaked but generally a good image.

[Mad Aussie]

That SOCC shot is excellent as is too.

[Iguanasan]

That SOCC shot is excellent as is too.

Thanks, MA!

Cheers, Mate!

[Greg_Nuspel]

Just imaging the post we would have from MA if it snowed anywhere near him :p

[russ]

Man ... you make one little comment about being amused by Canadians and their obsession with spring and it gets twisted around to I hate flowers :headslap:

I defy you to find a post of mine that is complaining about flowers ;)

Well okay, but you have to understand - there's but 2 seasons in photography for Canadians. Boring season and Picture Taking season. The cycle is 6 months long, it's like this. We have the rebirth of life season, some call it spring but really it's 10,000 exposures followed by a somewhat boring yet pleasant post processing season interspersed with pleasant outdoor photo's of beautiful greeneries & mature flowers. Next comes the Death of Flora season, a beautiful time of year that greats the eye with head smacking colours so brilliant that they're nearly impossible to miss. Then lastly comes heavy post processing season. This is when the 10000 spring photo's & 7000 fall photos are dealt with. It is also interspersed with challenging photo opportunities that all the color technology given to us by god won't help. The damned photos still come out black & friggin' white. I'm almost positive it's the real motive that Lee, Cokin & Singh Ray have for creating "color correcting" filters. After all, if there isn't any color we must need to add some.

So, there you have it. My interpretation of the seasons. Canadian POV of course! :D

[Mad Aussie]

I might need to be more obvious here :)

People ... I was just teasing.

I was born in New Zealand ... a cold land with snow and stuff AND Spring and Autumn! I've been back there on several ocassions ... it's still the same :)

I totally get (well ... maybe not totally ... Canada is a lot colder than NZ) the drab confines of winter you suffer once the initial excitement of the first snow falls fades away. I know all the grass dies underneath the white blanket and know how spring blooms are nothing short of a god-send. I understand. I do. I always did. ;)

[Greg_Nuspel]

MA we can still give you a rough time, it's the Canadian way :D

[Bambi]

Well okay, but you have to understand - there's but 2 seasons in photography for Canadians. Boring season and Picture Taking season. The cycle is 6 months long, it's like this. We have the rebirth of life season, some call it spring but really it's 10,000 exposures followed by a somewhat boring yet pleasant post processing season interspersed with pleasant outdoor photo's of beautiful greeneries & mature flowers. Next comes the Death of Flora season, a beautiful time of year that greats the eye with head smacking colours so brilliant that they're nearly impossible to miss. Then lastly comes heavy post processing season. This is when the 10000 spring photo's & 7000 fall photos are dealt with. It is also interspersed with challenging photo opportunities that all the color technology given to us by god won't help. The damned photos still come out black & friggin' white. I'm almost positive it's the real motive that Lee, Cokin & Singh Ray have for creating "color correcting" filters. After all, if there isn't any color we must need to add some.

So, there you have it. My interpretation of the seasons. Canadian POV of course! :D


Russ this is frigging hilarious! :laughing:- because it's true. :sad:

MA we get it. Totally. It's just fun to tease you. :clown:

[casil403]

Russ is bang on...:laughing:
Welcome to Canada.
Nice crocus shots too there Ig.....I found a real open Daffodil last week and it's all I can do not to trespass illegally and capture it! :wall-an:

[Iguanasan]

Thanks, casil. I have my daffy shots at home that I got on Monday too. My laptop is in the shop and the desktop I'm using is painfully slow so I haven't had a chance to review everything yet. I expect I'll be flowering up the board again in a day or so. :evil2:

[Mad Aussie]

MA we can still give you a rough time, it's the Canadian way :D
Yeh careful ... it's the Aussie way too ;)

[Bambi]

Yeh careful ... it's the Aussie way too ;)

but you are from New Zealand!. so we're probably safe then :D

[Mad Aussie]

Don't be silly ... the Kiwi's taught the Aussie's how to pick on people! ;)

[Bambi]

Don't be silly ... the Kiwi's taught the Aussie's how to pick on people! ;)

see 'kiwi' doesn't sound all that tough......

[Mad Aussie]

see 'kiwi' doesn't sound all that tough......
Go play football with them ... no pussy pads and helmets in their game ;)

[Mad Aussie]

I told this guy you siad he was a big girls blouse ...
http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/tameiti_narrowweb__300x409,2.jpg

He wants to speak to you! ;)

[Bambi]

really cool tattoos! I would love to talk to him! It would be fun.