Rose

[womble]

Pentax LX with FB-1/FD-1 viewfinder, SMC Pentax-M 85mm f/2 lens, small extension tube, Kodak Ektar 100 film, cable release, tripod, mirror up...



Best wishes, Kris.

[DigiChromeEd]

Beautiful.

[Yebisu]

[poilu]

[womble]

Thanks guys. K.

[Nesster]

You hit that rose on the nose! Perfect shot.

[Rolf]

That is a rose shot. Wonderful. Thanks for sharing.

[Nisseliten]

Wonderful. Simply wonderful.

[Pontus]

Those drops are icing on the cake. Superb!

[Excalibur]

[SonicScot]

Excellent.

[ChromaticAberration]

Wow, very, very nice. Smooth but eye catching. Loved the composition and monotone coloring.

[womble]

Thanks everyone. Best wishes, Kris.

[Himself]

[davidbrat]

"Smooth but eye catching", exactly ! Stunning result...

[skida]

Very impressive! I think greetings card makers would be interested in that.

[ForenSeil]

Really great! Much better and especially much more artsy than very most flower shots I've seen, an this is even analog! Stunning!

[Laurence]

Gosh, I'll bet we ALL have seen many, many rose shots over the years. I would have thought
there were no more decent rose images, since every angle and type of rose had been covered.
Or..so I thought!

This image has quality written all over it. Unique and gorgeous in its lines, comp, and especially
the smooth texture you captured. I can't really remember a rose picture that sings like this one.

If this were at an art show, I would probably buy it. It's that good, at least to me.

Astounding!

[yinyangbt]

Larry said it better than I could . Excellent work !

[womble]

Thanks everyone. It is nice when you're just playing for fun and it really works. It was one shot too, none of my usual couple of dozen attempts that I would have made using digital. I must get a bigger print made.


Best wishes, Kris.

[Laurence]

I must get a bigger print made.
If you don't make a big print, and don't take a picture of the print, there will be lots of folks 'mad' at you!
This shot CRIES OUT for a big print. A whole print full of deep pastel color. You should also save this shot in more than one backup place, too. Just sayin'. Maybe just spinning up a CD and having someone put it in their cupboard for you.

You have a 'way' with flowers - there's lots of flower shots taken by photographers because they are a beautiful subject, but you
have gone over the top on this one. I hope you continue to take similar images, because there is a gorgeous uniqueness that is all your own.

Ektar! Wow! Did you scan this? Did you scan the film, or did you scan the processed image? GREAT thinking on putting on the
extender. I don't know the truth to this, but it SEEMS to me that film makes better big prints than digital.

This cries out for a drum scan. I can just picture in my mind the deep pastel color in a big print, slamming my head around to look at it - like a magnet. That said, your current scan is marvelous.

Pentax LX with FB-1/FD-1 viewfinder, SMC Pentax-M 85mm f/2 lens, small extension tube, Kodak Ektar 100 film, cable release, tripod, mirror up...

Your attention to the shot by using a cable release and locking the mirror certainly must have added to the clarity of this image. Who
says the Pentax 85/2 is not a good lens? I don't know what kind of viewfinder that FB-1/FD-1 is, but it certainly worked!

Yeah, it's difficult to get a good shot with an older film camera isn't it?... Maybe just mat it with a single pure white mat board with a black core, and a black frame? Of course, any type of mounting would be the ticket, and that is your choice indeed. Just sayin'
that a simple mat and frame would augment this shot nicely, because it has its own details that stand up strong.

[paulusje]

Wow! Beautiful shot in every way!

[PnR]

never do same thing in digital, so emotion ! thank you.