First Rose

[G3owner]

Hi everybody. This is my first time logged on to this forum. I have been photographing as a happy amateur using various kinds of equipment most of my life. Inspired by my colleague i did buy a Canon G3 a few months ago - and I do not regret! It's a superb camera!

Below is one of my favourite shots during this summer. Canon PowerShot G3, F=4.0, 1/1244 s, manual exposure setting, manual focus, freehand. Shot in Hanko, Finland in July 2003. Original photo 2272x1704 pixel, this one is slightly cropped, resized and unsharp mask added.

http://g3.myownsite.org/rosacanina.jpg

[tenerife]

Good, but put the rose a little more out of the middle..

Regards from Tenerife
Klaus

[clos]

Nice Macro, it looks a little dark though.

I brightened it up a bit in photoshop, I hope you don't mind. You can find it here:

http://www.pbase.com/closndeb/inbox

Tell me what you think, I am new also so please take that in to consideration also.

-Clos

[G3owner]

Thanks for the comments.

Maybe I should have shot it with the rose more to the side. The original version actually had a little more border to the right, but in my eyes it just looked too heavy with that much dark background, so I cropped it to get the rose in the middle...

To me the photoshopped version looks too light - the leaves in the background become too bright green. I wanted to make a dark background to get the rose stand out...