Red Berries

[velvet4269]

This was probably one of the only photos I took today that I like:

[jiminyClickit]

velvet4269,

Like photographing crowds, it's good when someone stands out. Or if you zoom in. There's an interesting circular composition happening with the opposing leaves on the left, which might be worth isolating in a crop; much of the right is so-so. The color is unusual, a pleasant hue.

[rdaw]

Sitting here in front of my monitor with my head cranked onto my right shoulder, I think a 90 degree CCW rotation improves it. I also like the colour - an odd shade of red...

[brianfarrell]

Originally Posted by rdaw

Sitting here in front of my monitor with my head cranked onto my right shoulder, I think a 90 degree CCW rotation improves it. I also like the colour - an odd shade of red...

I did that too!

Although - if this is a crop and the full image allows a 45 degree CCW rotation and recrop, then that would be my preference to get the diagonal active...

[velvet4269]

I cropped some greenery around the image, to get it small enough to upload (original image was just a tad under 5MB), but not enough to make a difference, really.

Funny enough, I'd played with different close-up crops & rotations, although I hadn't considered a 45* rotation. I also played with cropping out groups of berries & rotating, but just didn't like anything I came up with. I'll play more this evening, when I have more time.

The one thing I did have to do, though, was clone out the single strand of spider web that was shining quite nicely in the sun. You can kinda see where I botched the clone job on one of the leaves in the large image, but overall, not too terrible

[xxpinballxx]

Originally Posted by rdaw

Sitting here in front of my monitor with my head cranked onto my right shoulder, I think a 90 degree CCW rotation improves it. I also like the colour - an odd shade of red...

I third that I just redid it and cropped a bit to focus more on the leaves and the berry pyramid so to speak!

[velvet4269]

Okay, I played a little more, rotated 45* CCW, and cropped the heck out of it, but I almost like the end result:

[Moe]

I liked the leaves in the shot. My opinion only, I think you cropped to tightly. I liked the suggestion of leaving the leaves that circle the berries on the left side. :-) Good detail on the berries, thou.

[velvet4269]

Unfortunately, the way I took the picture, there was no way to crop & keep the leaves on the left _and_ rotate for a more interesting angle - I ended up with tons of white space around the edges of the photo.

It does make me wish, however, that I'd gotten the bunch of berries that was dead center amidst a circle of leaves. For some reason, I have trouble getting good focus on red & white items.

[melanie2457]

I agree that a 45 degree crop would be best. I think the second crop is interesting but is too close.

You might consider posting the original image and see what wonders people here can do with it...