Photography Thailand Forum

[Marc Schultz]

A sunset shot of the Mexican Sunflowers atop Mae Eau Kor mountain.

[Renato]

If I am told this is a postcard I will believe. Beautiful shot and composition Marc, as always whenever you post them.

[Marc Schultz]

Thank you for the kind words as always Jingle. It could probably stand for a bit of cropping of the dark area at the bottom, but I decided to leave it as is for now.

[kinginexile]

Hi Mark,

On first thought (meaning on second impression ), I would argue that the sun, being also in company with the darkest, busiest part of the picture, is a little too much in a bottom corner of your compo. We have a bit of centrifugal weight, spatially and light)wise too, pulling our sight away from the rising stem. I wonder if it was possible to angle the shot to simply hide it, save its glow of course.

Continuingly, I also find very difficult to know where to cut leaves off often when shooting flowers or vegetation, as concerns the edges of a frame.  Here, still at that bottom corner, we sense you just had to frame it as it is, "good enough", rather than perfect the coçmpo with exhaustive refinement, which I think is the real pursuit in succeding at vegetation or still life photography.

Hello from France, BTW, visiting the family, and excitingly about 5 weeks from landing in Bangkok, from San Francisco. 

[Marc Schultz]

Thank you. All good points from a technical standpoint and agreed in general a strong highlight like that is normally not desired. On this picture though I wanted to emphasize the light of the sun, thus breaking technical graces for the sake of expressing what I wanted to show. I felt it is very rare we get the chance to really look at the sun so strong coming through a flower bush like that and so I thought it was intersting to be able to see it as such. In fact, if I took the sun out as you suggested, then the picture would lose the impact of what I wanted to emphasize about it. Afterall, without the strong sun we are left with possibly just a very typical looking sunset silhouette of a flower bush. I am just giving you my feelings about it and you are welcome to your own thoughts on it. Afterall, these are somewhat subjective issues :)

[agitlits]

Marc,

A beautifully composed shot of an everyday subject which you made look exceptional yet again :-)

Alex