The tulips in Wisconsin don’t last long, but during the month of May they look fantastic. I wanted to get a nice colorful grouping of the tulips and my neighbor’s yard has several examples. My goal was to use an open aperture for a narrow depth of field in order to blur the background. The original image had a bright pink cluster of tulips that partially appeared behind the red tulips I was photographing. So I erased the pink ones using Luminar. The original cropping and editing was done in Lightroom. As I look at the final image, I think perhaps the stems of the tulips in the background, illuminated by the sun, may be a little too bright. Does the brightness of that blurry background take away from the most in-focus red tulip on the left?
Sony a7II, 35mm, f 2.8, ISO 100, 1/1250 sec.
This round’s discussion is now closed! 6 comments posted
Beautiful shade of red for the tulips. Front tulip is nice and sharp--able to see all the folds in the petals. There is something about this photo that, for me, isn't quite right. Maybe it is the light stems. Maybe holding a black poster board behind the three tulips would solve the problem so that the entire background is black. Posted: 06/08/2018 18:19:24
Cindy Lynch
I think your composition is good and the blurred background is nice. The bottom left half is a little too bright for my taste. I would have liked to have seen more details in the two right tulips. As it is, only 1/3 of your image is in focus. I feel like that would work if the in-focus tulip was in the center. Posted: 06/11/2018 11:18:13
Ray Henrikson
Something bothers me about this image - maybe it is just that I've seen so many tulip photos this season! The OOF tulip at the right is too prominent. I would start all over again. Posted: 06/12/2018 21:19:22
I like the way the light is falling on the tulips and creating shadows within the flower. To me the focus on the front tulip looks very good at exposure throughout the photo looks very good.
I think that if all three tulips were in sharp focus, the photo might be more pleasing to me. Posted: 06/27/2018 10:47:42
Charlie Yang
taking a group of flowers is hard, the composition, the light, the petals, not everything is perfect, just as what I showed in this month's. So, this is what I come to, focusing only one flower, looking for one and only one to be my subject, until I got it right, then move on multiple. Just my thought. Posted: 06/28/2018 14:02:19
The image looks good, a hair brighter than need be but still in the ballpark. Posted: 06/28/2018 19:47:00
