Joshes' Photoblog
Purple Color
Posted by Josh (Vancouver, Canada) on 6 August 2007 in Plant & Nature and Portfolio.
Purple isn't my favorite color, but it might be for some? Imagine life without purple! Do or make something purple today!
I'm still new with the whole lighting editing thing in Photoshop, so if someone more pro could give some tips? Cheers!
Amanda from Blenheim, New Zealand
love the green with the pink /purple lightining looks pretty good too me well done!
6 Aug 2007 5:34am
@Amanda: Thanks!
@Evi: It's okay to me, but now that you mention it.. thank you! I Love your photogblog! Awesome!
@Dimitrios: Oh yeah! Keep exploring the wonders of Photoshop eh! Thank You.
celialee from Kyoto, Japan
Beautiful. Very clear and the colour stands out against the background.
6 Aug 2007 6:35am
@celialee: Thanks! There's more purple in Japan yea?
@JED: Thank you! Enhanced enough. Heh.
@ColNed Pictures: Thanks!
kairospix from Singapore, Singapore
very well post-processed
the blurred out background made the flower stand out!
62 years ago today purple blue spots appeared on the skin many people of Hiroshima...signs of poisoning of the blood - they were suffereing from leukemia due ot the radiation of the A-bomb... one famous girl by the name of Sadako Sasaki had these purplish spots ten years after the A-bomb was dropped... she eventually died of it but not before she folded a thousand paper cranes in a wish to get well again... and so today in some parts of Asia when you wish someone will get well sometimes people fold them a thousand paper cranes...
6 Aug 2007 8:18am
@kairospix: Thanks kairos! Someone recommended me to your Am3 and I dropped by, you have very nice pictures too!
I'm sorry to hear about that girl. Yes and we will remember that incident and hope it will never happen again. Thanks for the info.
@badala: Indeed! Thank you
Sriram from Chennai, India
Josh, Exciting colours and Macro work!
Brilliant job done!
6 Aug 2007 8:54am
@Sriram: Thank you Sriram! Am still learning.
@Shahab: Thank you Shahab. Yup nice colors!
Morris J. Chisholm from Thunder Bay - Land of the Sleeping Giant, Canada
Beautiful, well done very clear and crisp excellent capture.
6 Aug 2007 1:59pm
@Morris J. Chisholm: Thanks Chisholm!
Alfredo J. Martiz J. from Tokyo, Japan
Beautiful photo, lovely colors (purple is my favorite one), =)
6 Aug 2007 2:49pm
@Alfredo J. Martiz J.: Yup, what would we do without purple in our lives. Thanks!
Martine Lapointe from Quebec, Canada
Bravo, I love it! The purple and green fit always together.
6 Aug 2007 5:01pm
@Martine Lapointe: Thanks! They contrast well!
miu* from GA, United States
By deep green background,this flower stands out!
Great!
6 Aug 2007 7:41pm
@miu*: It does, thanks!
Vicki from Yamba, Australia
Hi Josh,
You have a lovely shot with great depth of field. A good base image to start working on. As you have asked for PS tips, here's my suggestions.....
I would adjust the levels a bit to the left to give the shot a tiny bit more saturation, give the image a small bump in the 'S' curves to make the colour 'pop', but not so much as to make it took un natural, crop the flower in tighter and turn it into a vertical image and run a light vignette around the edge to stop the eye from straying over to the lighter coloured corners in the shot. That should bring a lot more impact to the subject of the photograph.
In camera (always good to have a good base image) I would have set your 400D at 100iso (the 400D can be quite 'noisy' at 400iso, imho), and taken several different compositions. Really work the subject. This is not a critisism, however, the composition is quite boring, unless you were going for the subject right in the centre of target look and that was your intention.
Try shooting left of screen, right of screen, vertically, from down low, from up high, from square on and see which looks the best when you get home. CF cards hold a lot, so shoot away and protect those cards like they are the Crown Jewels yourself until you get home and down load and back up your images.
Take on board what information is helpful and trash the rest.
Vicki
6 Aug 2007 9:10pm
@Vicki: Wow thanks Vicki. Haha, those are some useful tips. I'll definitely use them in adjusting my other pictures to come! Thanks again!
@Amir: Thanks!
Vicki from Yamba, Australia
Hi Josh,
I meant adjust the levels to the RIGHT in this image. Ooops.....
Vicki
7 Aug 2007 6:10am
Susan from New Market, United States
This is one of my favorite color combinations! It's great!
8 Aug 2007 7:40pm
@Susan: Yup, it's a nice contrast combination. Thanks!
@Witchpanther: Thanks!
@zecarlos: It sure stands out from the green!
Canon EOS 400D
1/200 second
F/5.6
ISO 400
300 mm