D3 with 24-70

[Bob G]

What else do you do on a miserable rainy day?

Go to the florist buy wife a flower, ask if you can photograph it

[chrisk]

ummm...wow.
beautiful lighting.

[johnd]

Bob, that 24-70 is just not working. Please take it off your D3 and send it to me.

But seriously, that is one great shot. How did you get the lighting so even? Is that natural or are you using R1C1 or something?
I think this works heaps better than your other one taken with the 70-200.
The black background set it off nicely as well.

Cheers
John

[rflower]

Bob, that 24-70 is just not working. Please take it off your D3 and send it to me.

But seriously, that is one great shot. How did you get the lighting so even? Is that natural or are you using R1C1 or something?
I think this works heaps better than your other one taken with the 70-200.
The black background set it off nicely as well.

Cheers
John

I was going to ask the same thing. How did you get that light ... pleeeease ...

[Matt. K]

Pure blacks are the most difficult of all colours for a photographer to control. You have done it beautifully! Handle the background and the subject will handle itself.

[Bob G]

No great secrets - window light - on rainy overcast day sat on the kitchen bench.

Background was white but I PP'd it black cause I thought it worked better with the colors of the flowers

Thanks for your comments guys

[Blokeman]

Interesting! Great colour in the flower, I had assumed it was a really bright flash to overpower the ambient light.
Very nice

[tasadam]

Background was white but I PP'd it black cause I thought it worked better with the colors of the flowers

Wow... Gotta learn even more about PP.

I can't wait for my 24-70 to arrive... It was posted on the 8th by USPS so will be getting close........

Well done with the shot - brilliant subject colour reproduction. (Can't say the same for the background coz it's fake...)

[gstark]

What else do you do on a miserable rainy day?

Silly bloody question.

Oh, I see ....

wife

You're married. Scrub that thought!


Colours are beautiful, and nicely offset against the background. But have you overdone the sharpening? I cannot really tell, but gut feel suggest maybe.

[Bob G]

I think the sharpening is OK - The orchid petals are quite light coloured on the edges.
As a matter of interest the D3 users are finding the files can stand a lot more agressive sharpening that previous Nikons.

I think my having sustituted the white background with black has given a bit of a hard edge between the flower and the bacground which looks like over sharpening.

I was going to edit the post with a larger size pic but " have we lost the edit function? " in "the new look" or am I missing something

[gstark]

I was going to edit the post with a larger size pic but " have we lost the edit function? " in "the new look" or am I missing something

The permissions setup in phpbb3 are very complex, and can be any of forum, group, or user based. I need to see what's set for this forum section, and work from there. Thanx for asking.