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Zinnia Still Life

© Nikki McDonald

Zinnia Still Life

Uploaded: August 27, 2009

Description

Not a very creative title but the best I can do this morning. I set this up for the BetterPhoto FFFP Club's August challenge (still life this month) thinking I would like the crisp white table against the bright green wall but the contrast line where table met wall was too bold and badly placed in the composition so I decided to soften the definition and ended up with this. The crackle on the pot is natural to the glaze; the background crackle is actually a close-up of the side of the pot applied digitally as a layer. And after all this work, I ended up not using it as one of my submissions to the contest :)
Category: Digital Darkroom

Exif: F Number: 8, Exposure Bias Value: 0.00, ExposureTime: 500000/1000000 seconds, Flash: did not fire., ISO: 400,400, FocalLength: 90.00 mm, Model: DSLR-A350

Comments

Linda D. Lester level-classic August 27, 2009

I think it is beautiful....great work! #1173191

Courtenay Vanderbilt August 27, 2009

Beautiful still life and great effects, Nikki! #7892475

Amy M. Wilson August 27, 2009

Wonderful still life, excellent colors and effects...well done, Nikki! #7892600

Jessica Jenney August 27, 2009

Beautiful still life, Nikki and I love the effects and treatment. Love the crackle! #7892968

Mary E. Lake August 27, 2009

You've done a great job on this Nikki!! :) #7893263

David Phalen August 27, 2009

Beautiful work Nikki!! If this image didn't make the cut for the challenge I'd like to see the one that did!! #7893713

Colleen Farrell August 27, 2009

Gorgeous still life, Nikki! I was going to ask if this was a raku pot (that's the technique that makes the crackle glaze) and then I read your description. Great idea to use it as an additional texture layer. #7894554

Jane Holestine August 28, 2009

Excellent work, Nikki. Everything about this image is perfect. The comp, colors, detail, effects are all great. #7895070

Dr Silly level-classic August 28, 2009

Hey this photo is all cracked up. LOL Wonderful still life. :O) #7895106

Amalia Sylvia Arriaga Salinas level-classic August 28, 2009

Beautiful work Nikki!,
Amalia #7897261

Kitty R. Rodehorst-Hanna August 28, 2009

Fantastic work on this still life image, Nikki!!! :-) k #7897317

Sherran Andersen level-classic August 28, 2009

Love this capture Nikki... really like the greens and comp here. Was hard to decide in FFFP amongst your entries as I really liked them all and if you had put this one in it would have been even harder lol. One of these days will have to ask you how to do a background like this or like in one done by Colleen Farrell. Well worth the work... congrats on the EP. Sherran #7897494

JO ANN CLEVELAND August 29, 2009

This is awesome Nikki, a piece of art, frame this and hang it girl!

Love what you have done to it, great presentation

jo ann c. #7899642

Christine Czernin level-classic August 29, 2009

Beautiful still,Nikki. Thanks for sharing what you did to accomplish it.
It certainly is worth the work you put into it. Looks like a winner to me. #7899891

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