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Published: 2005-06-08 14:51:12 +0000 UTC; Views: 1995; Favourites: 49; Downloads: 132
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I've seen so many people here with photos of calla lilies, and my immediate thought was that I'd never submit one because of the absolute plethora of them already here. However, my family, Josh and I decided to go to Vancouver BC last weekend and ended up at a park with a patch of them. It was raining and I had my camera with me; what did you think I was going to do?At the very least, I think there are either no or very few photos of calla lilies in the rain.
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Oh, nicely done. I love Calla lilies, they're my favorite
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Lilly with waterdrops ... mhum ... great shot, thx for sharing it with us
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I love where you focused on the flower... in closeups like that, most would leave the back of flower out of focus, but you left the front unfocused. I also enjoy the plethora of raindrops.
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I prefer focusing on the center of the flower in photos like this. It just feels more... balanced, I guess.
And yes, raindrops are so fun. I'm just glad it was raining.
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Oh, thank you! I will definitely be submitting this as a print as soon as I have the time to go and edit the full-size piece. I just bought a prints account today, so check back sometime over the next week if you wanted to add it to your wishlist or something. I promise I'll get right on it.
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hay this is a relly good shot i want to do somthing like this but slitly difront i was wondring haw did u get the black back drop (in photoshop or did you yous a black pees of paper?)
im so faving this
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Hahaha thanks for the fave. Actually, all I did was take the photo and edit out the background in Adobe Photoshop. I couldn't actually do anything with the background when I took the photo because I took this one outside. If you want, you can ask =openxsky . She has quite a few photos of flowers with black backdrops too, though she might have done the same thing as me.
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Oh my GOSH! This is so PRETTY! O.O! If I were there, I bet I could see my reflection in the dew drops! ^^
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PS. Thank you for the fave as well!
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Aww, thank you. See you in #Trivia later.
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I think that the shot is very unique. The calla lily is gorgeous despite and probably because of its simplicity so it's obvious why everyone wants to photograph it but you're right, there are so many that most just fade into the background. The drops of water, however, are usually seen on roses or something and the crop of the picture + the white on black makes it stand out from the rest ^_^ Love it.
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Thanks for the lovely comment. It's nice to hear what's working well, even if there's no critique with it. Every little bit helps!
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well no critique necessary, m'dear ^_~! it's a thoroughly lovely shot.
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I didn't know they were called calla lilies. In Peru we call them cartuchos, which means "cartridges" (don't ask me why). There's some odd grey pixellation in the corners (except the bottom right). Otherwise it's a very nice shot, and you chose a good specimen!
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Cartuchos hm? I'll have to remember that.
I think the grey pixelation you're seeing might just be a bit of bleed from the pixel border or something. I don't see it and my screen sucks, so it might also be your screen. I'll have to keep a lookout for it next time I use a different computer, I guess. Thanks!
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It could be... I've had the same thing happen, I think due to JPEG compression. In such cases I just blur it away with Fireworks. But it's not immediately obvious, so it doesn't matter really.
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Actually I avoided .jpg compression for this photo because the file was small enough to just leave it as a .png. It's true that does happen with JPEGs, but it shouldn't be happening here. 
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Now that I look at it again, it is actually quite visible, also around the edge of the flower (at the boundary with the black background). I doubt it's my screen, it's a 1024x768 TFT.
Does your camera actually save as PNG? Mine just does JPG, which is a bit of a shit, since my old one (an olympus) used to do TIFFs (but about 30 MB a picture, hehe).
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It saves as JPEG, but I always edit in PNGs, and sometimes export in the same. I always hated TIFFs. Took forever to load.
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Yeah, I've started doing that too, since I noticed that even at the highest JPEG quality, it was still slightly inferior to PNG24.
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heh, yeah, it's difficult compromising size over quality, I hate having to make these decisions. My life is so hard!!!
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I know! If only PNGs were a tiny bit smaller.
Or conversely, if JPEGs were a bit better quality.
I feel like a spoiled brat, complaining over this.
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hah, that's what I was thinking. And being a bit of a geek.
Sometimes I miss the excitement of taking a roll of film to be developed and passing the glossy prints around for people to see. Though if they came out a bit shit it could be quite disappointing. But, since I'm a bit of a geek, I like manipulating my digital ones, so I'll stick with digital.
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Agreed. Glossy prints are fun (if I get to see them first, of course), but digital beats all.
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Yeah, and it's beating Kodak to death. They aren't too happy.
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Cartuchos hm? I'll have to remember that.
I think the grey pixelation you're seeing might just be a bit of bleed from the pixel border or something. I don't see it and my screen sucks, so it might also be your screen. I'll have to keep a lookout for it next time I use a different computer, I guess. Thanks!
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So you photoshoped the background out and added a black background? Wow.. it just looks perfect. I just wish the water droplets looked a bit sharper. I admire the drops that go against the background. Its simple yet so incredibly beautiful. God makes so many wonderful things. I honestly havent seen one around here on dA. At least.. not one as good as thing.
Stunning.
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Actually, I just used the lasso feature in PS and selected the background- then manipulated it a few different ways to turn the selected area black. I could have done it other ways, but I just didn't think of it.
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Great detail on the waterdrops and the striations in the petal.....A lovely capture indeed
I thought you might like this [link] it shows just some of the different colors that Calla Lilies come in
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Yeah, macro functions are just crappy, in my experience. Very few of them are very good at all unless you've got an actual macro lens (and it's a good one). Beyond that, it's hard to get a great macro, no matter how good it is.
Thanks so much though! I love the orange calla lilies- if only I could find some now!!
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I love macros my favorite type of photography but, yeah you are right
No problem I thought you might like the variety.....I thought they only came in white up till two years ago when I went in search of one for a gift for my sons teacher. Thats when I discovered the purple/violet ones
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Wow, Jess. I am stunned! I've been avidly awaiting your next post, and my waiting was obviously not in vain.
P.S. This is beautiful, if I didn't make myself clear before
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Ooooh!
A Calla Lily! 
Lovely shot!
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Thanks! Hehe I had no idea they came in different colors. Glad you like it.
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Take it you photoshoped (or similar) the lilly to get black stemless background!
I do like the water droplets on the Lilly - some have so much detail you can see the air bubbles in the midddle! Now that IS cool. Like how on the right you can see the outside of the flower - but wid that cut off and then none on the front/left it seems a little unbalanced. But then - i'm fussy!
Overall cool shot
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Yeah, I used APSCS2 to lasso the background and darken it. It didn't take very much work, since it was already pretty dark, but it turned out well all the same.
Thanks for the great comment.
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he he - pleasure - comments...... i just urm get.. carried away shall we say! But then this is not a bad thing!
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