To Bloom

[Tuna]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v382/redboys/GinterFlowerPanoBW156.jpg

All comments and critique greatly appreciated.

Tuna

[JMAS]

Awesome composition, light, and crop

[Leorooster]

Awesome composition, light, and crop

I second. Great work!

[Tuna]

Thank you for your kind comments. I'm glad you liked it.

Tuna

[b16pwrdej1]

I really like it; reminds me of a painting my grandmother used to have in her livingroom over the fireplace. The use of light and shadow is spectacular.

[Harabec]

beautiful, I love it

[SmuckerS2]

very painting-like, i like it. definately one for the wall.

[Zero]

very lovely! so nicely done. I'm happy to see a flower shot in black and white. so many of us are tempted by colour. what camera did you use? I'm wondering about your exposure etc... wondering if you would share?

[Andy_T]

Now that's what I call impressive contrasts :D

Thanks for sharing.

Best regards,
Andy

[Tuna]

Thank you for the continued generous comments.

very lovely! so nicely done. I'm happy to see a flower shot in black and white. so many of us are tempted by colour. what camera did you use? I'm wondering about your exposure etc... wondering if you would share?

Zero - this one was shot with a rangefinder at my local botanical garden. It was a Leica MP fitted with a Voigtlander 35/1.7 Ultron on Kodak Plus-x film. As for the exposure - these flowers were inside the large greenhouse area and there was decent ambient light so the exposure would have been in the 1/30 or 1/60 and f4 or 5.6 area.

Thanks again.

Tuna