Sunlit flower:

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Pentax Spotmatic, f-1.4 lens + Extension tubes, handheld. Kodachrome 64. Large aperture opening for zero depth-of-field effect. No exact exposure data was recorded, however, many of the exposures were +1 to +1.5 stops over the cameras indicated normal exposure. image was sharpened. The picture is about 21 years old. I am not sure what kind of flower it is.

-- Bahman Farzad (cpgbooks@mindspring.com), January 06, 1999

Answers

Bahman, are you sure this isn't an oil painting on a 4ft by 6ft canvas? :) When I see ultra realistic paintings, I wonder why they just didn't take a photograph. When I see highy expressionistic photos I wonder the reverse! But a nice piece of art and no linseed oil and turpentine fumes. My one nitpic: I wish the bright spot in the upper r. was red or a darker value.

-- Mike Green (mgprod@mindspring.com), January 07, 1999.

Bahman, Have you been saving your best work for last? I can't relate to most of your work even tho I can see the quality of craftmanship. But this piece is really nice even to my simple mind. Thanks for posting it. Maybe you will educate me yet!

-- Micheal F. Kelly (Kellys@alaska.net), January 07, 1999.

Bahman..in this and the flying pigeon, you are doing it again...painting with your camera! I can understand how some traditional nature photographers may not be able to relate to your work or even like it, but I find it very interesting. I think you are developing your very own art form! For Mike Green...in art school..(or least this is the way it used to be) if you painted a very realistic painting, your art instructor would scream at you,"If you want it to look exactly like it is..take a photo" The idea was, to make it art...you needed to put emotion and feeling into the subject matter. This is what is so amazing to me about Bahman's works...he seems to be doing this with his camera. Meade Kelly

-- Meade Kelly (kelly@clipper.net), January 07, 1999.

The image does indeed have a nice, painterly quality. The dark area at the top of the image pulls my eye away from the color. Moving the camera down a hair (or closer a hair, or both) to crop that dark area out would in my opinion improve the image.

-- Duane Galensky (duane@wild-light.com), January 08, 1999.