Yellow tulip

[Gary Zerbst]

[Tobie]

Beautiful Gary – and quite interesting to have the single beauty between the beasts!

From an ST point of view: I’d get rid of the square piece of paper (?) left bottom.

[Anne Hornsby]

Beautiful, Gary!  Great leading line, and I love the right red and yellow together!.

I experimented with different crops to emphasize the single yellow flower amidst the red.   What worked best for me was to crop out the left, since the far background was a bit more distracting (house and trees) compared to the wider yellow band on the left.   I would also emphasize (darken) the mountains in the distance.  See what you think.  Agree with cropping out the paper. 

[Frank]

Beautiful colors and I like the way the tulips’ leading lines are working in your composition. I see how you try to use the yellow tulip to break up the pattern, but I agree with Ann, it is not quite prominent enough. It has a bit too much characteristic of being a yellow dot.  So, I cropped off a bit of the bottom to get rid of both the paper and the puddle, and to bring the yellow tulip a bit closer and bigger.  But, something is just not quite right about the stray flower.

I also a bit sloppily tried to mimic the shape of the left yellow field to the right side to make the image symmetrical, or evenly balanced with the yellow.  Painted over the white roof, too. Added a touch of red saturation.  Hope I did not overdo that!  What a beautiful spot.  I bet you took more than this one photo!  PS  Darkened the sky with a curves adjustment.

 

[Tobie]

I like this crop Frank. It retained enough sky to leave some context and the yellow tulip keeps focus.

[Anne Hornsby]

Yes, I like Frank’s crop, too.

[VALERY]

Usually I’m against composition tricks by editing – but this time Frank’s solution works

[JasenkaG]

I agree that Frank’s crop is really effective, I’d go with it.

[Gary Zerbst]

Frank  , Your improvements to my yellow tulip photo are  “Spot On”   (IMHO)!    I try to never physically manipulate as scene and  entry into the fields was forbidden (they even had hired a watchmen to assure that no one trespassed into the fields}  so the scrap paper remained in the photo.  I have to admit that it was a distracting  element however.   Cropping or erasing it out of the photo improves the photo.   Your treatment of the hill in the far background gives the leading lines something to lead toward.

Thanks

[Tersha]

Love the photo Gary, and really like Frank’s version

[Federico Alegria]

Just a few steps further and the intention could be delivered in a stronger way! Also a slight crop could enhance that. Love the idea of breaking the repetition, and the title makes you wonder what’s going on, and suddenly the expected yellow pops!

[Dahlia Ambrose]

Love the photo Gary and agree with the comments about the crop and removing the paper. I like what Frank has done 🙂

[Lenny Wollitz]

This is VERY nice.  Frank’s is great.  ST, the red flowers really show up as flowers with individual petals but the yellow one is kinda just a blob of glowing yellow with no petals, no flower shape.

 

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