The overall effect is pleasing to me, Joel. I must admit that I can't
see what is distracting Chuck, though. I must be losing my visual
acuity ...
Chris
On 6 Jan 2009, at 19:22, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> The far background looks very good. At the intermediate distance to
> the
> right of the center stem I'm bothered by two things. One is the halo
> look around the perimeter of the green and brown edged leaf and the
> second is a "hair" running between the leaves and across the stem of
> the
> flower. I think either one alone might be OK but the pair of them in
> close proximity draws my attention there and won't let it go. The
> "hair", of course, has nothing to do with bokeh and I don't know if
> the
> halo around the leaf is a bokeh effect or something else. Anyhow
> those
> two things prevent my full enjoyment of the image.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
> Joel Wilcox wrote:
>> Here is a photo I took several weeks ago.
>>
>> http://flickr.com/photos/99378213@N00/3174633142/
>>
>> I shot these flowers in several different ways, changing what was in
>> the background. In this case I included a railing to see whether it
>> would be distracting and/or jittery or whether it would provide a
>> little bit of contrast in the background that might provide more
>> interest to the flowers, a sense of scale, and that sort of thing.
>> While I don't get a "bokeh rush" from the image, I don't find it
>> displeasing. But is it bokeh? Does it matter?
>>
>> Joel W.
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