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I like this photo but have put some work into it as it hasn't quite come off for me yet.

But two versions, B&W or colour... opinion?




Note the background has been de-saturated a little...

I prefer the colour version. In my oppinion, in b&w it's difficult to see the subject because of it's highlights. In colour version the purple of the subject in contrast with the green of the background makes the subject shine.

- I hope to be clear. English isn't my best language. Sorry -

Colour for sure! I actually quite like that photo, would make a good wallpaper!

Justin

Definitely the colour version for reasons which iposiniditos (in very good english BTW) has covered well. I'd also crop most of the RHS and turn this into a portrait crop. The RHS is very distracting for me and adds nothing to the image.

What Peter said.

Flowers must always be in colour, unless, of course, the flower is black and white

Justin, colour for me, but I must remark on the lovely soft pastel quality you have to this image. Beautiful

thanks all!

The softness is due to the 300mm lens at f4 plus I upped it a little with a ~7 pixel gaussian blur in PS, to help seperate the flower some more from the background.

I'll try the portrait crop.

If you want this as a wallpaper, grab this -

http://justin.zenfolio.com/img/p736077081.jpg

it's 800x533

Maybe duotone or sepia?