I was getting a little bored with the British Open, so I started my arts and crafts. Honestly never thought I'd do anything like this but it was a lot of fun surprising myself. It's all pretty simple. Bought card stock paper at Michael's. We'd already been to the grocery store and there were better than usual selection of flowers that morning. I had to go to Kinkos to use their paper cutter because earlier in day the my scissor cutting looked bad! After taping together (there's another little imperfection at the intersection) I just cut 4 "X"s in the paper. The stems were very short and our "mini" - shag rug helped keep them in place. Re: the white one. I think it might have 'moved' a little while I adjusted the paper. It is annoying because it's just off.
Good learning experience: I discovered what the flash compensation does. I used it here @ -2/3. Really helped with no shadows. I also had two boards up resting against the tripod legs. Thanks for the comments and votes. I was really happy with the number of people who commented on originality! The whole day proves that effort pays off.
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absolutely stunning... don't tell me that its one single shot... awesome creativity... very-simple but simple things are are always most difficult to imagine. would love to try something similar.
Very cool idea. My only nitpick is that in something this geometric, I think it's important that the flowers be centered and the red rose and white whatever (I'm no flower expert) are not. But a unique use of flowers!
one of my favorites this challenge -- like the balance and symetry (would have like it to be more exact in the white flower since the feel is so geometric and even the slightest deviation shows up)
You choose a very difficult image to shot for this challenge, both for the lighting required and for post processing. I think the red section could have used a bit more contrast and could have be lightened just a bit to help the rose stand out more but I still had to give this a 7 for what you accomplished.
nice idea. i think a border would help, and perhaps space (white? black?) between the colored boxes. they don't quite look like they line up either. but i like the concept quite a lot! one of my favorites.
Wow, very cool. I've become a little tired of flower shots in this challenge, but this one really perks my interest. The juxtaposition of these four colors is really great.
Great idea and nicely shot with great colors.. If I had to find something to critique, I would say that I would probably center the flowers in each quadrant, or some sort of other symmetrical arrangement. As it is now, the red rose seems to be drifting to the lower right, the crysasanthumum white flower to the lower left, orange bottom right and the yellow seems centered. It just seems off balance.
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