tulip by pocketmouse
Gorgeous! Love the processing
May 20th, 2013  
Such pretty lighting and dof!
May 20th, 2013  
Love it. Love the lighting and processing. We have done similar processing with tulips lol. Great minds haha.
May 20th, 2013  
So beautiful and delicate
May 20th, 2013  
Love love your tones. Do you use Lightroom? I just love your style.
May 20th, 2013  
Very pretty.
May 20th, 2013  
Gorgeous tones!
May 20th, 2013  
Beautiful, elegant, warm. "Pretty" personified.
May 20th, 2013  
Stunning dof and lovely subtle tones.
May 20th, 2013  
Beautiful.
May 20th, 2013  
Great tones and focus, love it
May 20th, 2013  
Gorgeous shot- love the lighting!
May 20th, 2013  
Wonderful tones
May 20th, 2013  
loove the softness of your shots!
May 20th, 2013  
Nice DOF over the scene.
May 20th, 2013  
So pretty
May 20th, 2013  
Wonderful lighting and soft tones on this. Lovely
May 20th, 2013  
Lovely colors ;)
May 20th, 2013  
Beautiful focus.
May 20th, 2013  
so dreamy! beautiful toning as always and love the lighting!
May 20th, 2013  
Love the delicate touch you achieve, this is so pretty
May 20th, 2013  
Love the vintage feel of this :)
May 20th, 2013  
Wonderful soft touch.
May 20th, 2013  
pretty :)
May 21st, 2013  
Luscious and lovely!
May 21st, 2013  
Beautiful tones and great soft feel to this shot!
May 21st, 2013  
Pretty and soft... and a fav for me!
May 21st, 2013  
simple and beautiful
I love the vintage feel that you have on your post processing... would you mind sharing how you do this? I've got a shoot coming up soon that this would be absolutely lovely for
May 23rd, 2013  
@toast Thanks! :) I use Photoshop and I do processing manually (no filters) - I do a mixture of a flesh-coloured Fill layer set to Multiply, and a dark blue Fill layer set to Screen. Then I fiddle with colour balance and other things until I get the look I want :)
May 23rd, 2013  
@pocketmouse OMG thats hard core... ok... i may need to pick your brains later but i'm planning a kind of shoot with pointe shoes but not in a typical ballet sense.

Do you approach the shoot with lighting any differently? or is what you get all in post?
May 23rd, 2013  
@toast Haha yeah I've been using Photoshop for like... 8 years now... it was a steep learning curve and I'm still discovering how to do things!

I do like to achieve a hazy, glare-y look if I can - the super-wide aperture of the f/1.4 helps with that considerably, as does bright light from outside! (Direct sunlight works sometimes, but can be too much other times.)
May 23rd, 2013  
i've found that sometimes going up in ISO also helps achieve that hazy light... i want to be able to do it more consistently but i found it works well if the light source isnt in the image but just slightly outside of it, or if you have an object between the camera and the light. The other thing i've done is hold me hand up on the lens to shade it when its metering.. then take my hand away and shoot...
May 23rd, 2013  
Great shot...and thanks for the lesson on PS. I do simliar things but will try what you mention here.
June 2nd, 2013  
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