High key tulips #1 by goodoleboy
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Captured back on 4/2/07, at the beautiful Descanso Gardens, in beautiful La Cañada Flintridge, California.
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Comments (9)
rangeriderrichard
Beautiful capture! Great colors!
Cyve
WOW.. Marvelous colors and fantastic capture... Marvelous flowers also!!!
MrsRatbag
Those are some very exotic tulips, what a lovely variety! Nice find and excellent shot, Harry!
CavalierLady
Lovely colors on these tulips, Harry.
magnus073
Nice work on this colorful capture, Harry.
photosynthesis
Very nice - the blown out white works very well here. This isn't a technique I use at all, but I can appreciate what you've done with it...
claude19
splendid photograph...like a painting oil ! superb !!!
debbielove
Beautiful and very well posed (great POV).. The lighting in perfect, well done mate. Rob
anahata.c
Harry, I'll get to your recent shots next time, I just wanted to do some older ones again, as I've still got a bunch I've not yet commented on. Having done a number of recent ones in my last sessions, I wanted to go backwards again...I agree with above comments about about the high key: It is highly effective. In fact, it would be effective in flower shots in general, from what I see here. I don't think I've ever used high key with flowers or plants, but this shows how powerful it can be. Your high whites are like oil paint, and they render the saturated reds as paint too. And they make the textures like paint too. It's quite powerful, and works wholly well. This takes some daring, because a flower's natural beauty inhibits us from "messing" with them: But this is a powerful image. And your un-high-key background makes the high key flowers stand out all the more. If you look at the flower paintings of Georgia O'Keeffe---one of the 20th C's great painters---you'll see she dives into flowers and turns them into very powerful visions, sometimes out-and-out abstracts. So you're in great territory here. This is very exciting---suddenly tulips are looking like a very powerful vision. (Here's a simple link to "Georgia O'Keeffe Flowers," in Google Images. Just glance at the thumbnails, and you'll see how she treats them. I can't help but think of her, when I see this shot...and yes, this is just one link, not 200... https://www.google.com/search?newwindow=1&safe=off&hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1864&bih=1283&q=Georgia+O%27Keeffe+Flowers&oq=Georgia+O%27Keeffe+Flowers&gs_l=img.3..0l2.1427.11163.0.11375.33.13.8.12.12.0.59.582.13.13.0.msedr...0...1ac.1.64.img