Photography

[gregography]

I've been completely un-driven and un-inspired for the last two months. I'm pushing myself to work more with garden pictures, and I'm pleased with this one:





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Because I have a cold and it gets worse at night and it's night and I'm grumpy, here is a link to a style of photography that I despise. http://www.dbem.net/

Comments

[r-pity.livejournal.com]

The color in tis pic is beautiful! Have you ever seen a rose named Hot Cocoa? I have one and in the cooler months of the year it is the most bizarre combination of pink/brown/purple all muddled together.

[mondragon.livejournal.com]

I've seen it in the stores, and have come close to buying one but I think it didn't fit into "one of every color" that we were going for. I am more and more enamored of the orange family of roses so who knows...

Have you seen "outta the blue" or "out of the blue"? I am trying to get pictures that show it correctly, it's a intense purple that fades to blue, and it's a multiflora so you'll get all the colors on one stem.

[r-pity.livejournal.com]

I havent seen the out of the blue. it sounds great though. Roses dont do super well in my climate. Too hot and humid most of the year so they tend to become diseased. I also think the heat stresses them and their flowers don't live up to their potential. This year I have become fascinated with daylilies. I never realized they had been bred to be so complex. You should check some out. They also survive being inundated in several feet of salt water periodically and since hurricane ike that is a great attribute for my choice in plants! If you look at daylilies on Ebay they have thousands of different varieties. Some of them combinations of really bizarre colors.

[bitterlawngnome.livejournal.com]

STLL LIFE

cause speling is for pussiez

[eclipse77x.livejournal.com]

Why do you despise it? I thought, well, SOME of them were ok. I wonder how they achive that weird quality where ti looks like the model appears placed onto the background.

[mondragon.livejournal.com]

My biggest problem with it is that for me, it doesn't feel like anything. It's an effect without affect. It's cookie-cutter cartoony.

It's also incredibly easy to achieve. Do you have Photoshop? Crank up shadows and highlights and you'll see what I mean.

[eclipse77x.livejournal.com]

I do that in my photos already. I guess I haven't overdone it to that degree.

[mhgagnon.livejournal.com]

"My biggest problem with it is that for me, it doesn't feel like anything"

Yeah. There is no energy whatsoever in the work. The figures feel like mannequins and even the still lifes are lifeless.

It's slick and well shot. And dead.