Friday, February 26, 2010

Yellow Tulip


I couldn't resist photographing this tulip. It was perfect. The challenge was angle of view, distance from the camera, it's beautiful shape, lines, tones and gradations of yellow to slight orange. It took about 20 shots, each composed slightly different but one shot worked best where I managed to give it quite a painterly look. Of course a little painting touch ups through photoshop accented the painterly look even more. The biggest challenge was using a shallow depth of field while being 4 inches away from the tulip.