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Critique Style Requested: Standard

The photographer is looking for generalized feedback about the aesthetic and technical qualities of their image.

Description

During the season my wife and I took a trip to the north of the State to photograph at a tulip farm. As you can imagine we composed a plethora of colourful images. However, my first and enduring love of a photograph, for me, is black and white. Yes, I started over 50 years ago. As such, here is the subject and I do like contrast.

Specific Feedback

Enjoy, offer suggestions or whatever takes your fancy.

Technical Details

Olympus E-M1 M2, 100mm, ISO 400, F5.6, 1/1000s. Cropped to square, contrast and believe it or not, converted to monochrome.

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Very good selective focus, Mark. I love all the highlight lines created by the leaf edges and the frilly flower contrasts very well with them.

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The lighting on this is great Mark. The frilly edges really are striking. I also like the dark leaves that fade into the sides and BG like suitors for the belle of the ball.

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Black and white offers a lot of territory to explore. This works very nicely. I don’t even miss the color here.

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@Dennis_Plank @Ed_Williams @Tony_Kuyper Thanks everyone for your supportive comments. I guess colourful tulips are not usually subjects for black and white.

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I also started over 50 years ago, and B&W is still where my heart is.
But if I show both versions, color and black and white, color is what sells.
Super job on the flower tones are perfect.
Steve