Summer Bloom

[Marko]

Interesting treatment on both MA. I love the yellow in shot one but I find the top half of the flower way too dark or way too burned in.
Shot 2 I find could use a bit more burning in all around the main subject.
Hope that helps - Marko

[Mad Aussie]

Interesting treatment on both MA. I love the yellow in shot one but I find the top half of the flower way too dark or way too burned in.
Shot 2 I find could use a bit more burning in all around the main subject.
Hope that helps - Marko

You picked on the two very things I was trying to achieve the opposite of

I wanted the darkness in the first shot to highlight the 'spotlight' effect ... and I wanted a bright, almost blown out effect in the second to achieve a strong, fairytale glow I used an off camera flash to achieve that lighting to start with and went from there.
But that's ok ... I know you have a aversion to overly dark or overly light photos

[Mad Aussie]

Maybe this one is more your taste Marko? Still a bit bright in the white though.

[Marko]

That's what I like MA! I guess I'm too conventional sometimes....and how odd it is that people know what i like and don't like. I mean I understand how it happens, but it's weird from this end.

You picked on the two very things I was trying to achieve the opposite of

I wanted the darkness in the first shot to highlight the 'spotlight' effect ... and I wanted a bright, almost blown out effect in the second to achieve a strong, fairytale glow I used an off camera flash to achieve that lighting to start with and went from there.
But that's ok ... I know you have a aversion to overly dark or overly light photos

MA you achieved your vision perfectly and you totally have me pegged on this on, but I'd like to add the word 'often' right before the word have in yr last sentence .

[Mad Aussie]

I'll amend my thinking to include often in my assessment of you Marko