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Environmental Portrait

© Ken Ke-Wei Pan

Environmental Portrait

Uploaded: March 26, 2004

Description

100mm/f2.8 macro lens; Fujichrome Provia 100; AP @ f2.8; flash compensation -1.5; hand held; Minolta Dimage Dual II, Photoshop. Mid February is the blooming time of "ume no hana" (plum flowers) in Osaka, Japan. I set my lens at f2.8 and selected my focus on my subject to make the blurring foreground and background. I wanted to make the whole image more 3 dimensional so I decided to use my flash at -1.5 output to light up the flowers of foreground.

Comments

Alisha May Furbish March 26, 2004

I like this! It's very original:) And those flowers look amazing! #111011

Kasia Elser March 26, 2004

Nice shot! #447747

Kristen McKain March 26, 2004

Beautiful!! #447914

Ken Ke-Wei Pan March 26, 2004

Thank you all for the great comments! I traveled in the Kansai area of Japan for 3 months by myself. I really like the country and people live there. I realized that many Japanese love photography! ... To me, communicating with the subjects and catching images with "stories" are so important to my style. #447977

Charles Dias April 01, 2004

Great photo. I think it´s very interesting to see photos showing other photographer working.
I liked too much the way you did this photo, showing the the photographer among a pink fog of cherry tree flowers. Composition is very good, no centralized but I would prefer if you placed the photographer by the right side of the photo. #457659

Nancy Grace Chen April 12, 2004

Creative and well-executed!! Congratulations on your finalist!


Nancy
nacespace.com/photos #474896

Alisha May Furbish April 12, 2004

Congratulations- one of my favorites this month! #476505

Cathy Barrows April 12, 2004

Congrats!...neat shot #477680

Monika Sapek April 14, 2004

Great photo, Ken! Many congratulations!
Monika
#482824

Eric Highfield level-deluxe April 14, 2004

Congratulations! Really well executed piece of work, Ken! #483120

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