Towering lilly pads

[rob berry]

Spotted this at the Royal Botanical Gardens, Edinburgh last year

[hhcanon]

Re: Towering lilly pads

Oh yes...i do like that. If it were mine I would probably crop the top down to the leaf which is folded over, so as to remove the bright top, but thats just me! Im sure others will disagree. A slightly smaller image posting would also alow us to see the complete on screen image. Well done by the way
Rob

[rob berry]

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A slightly smaller image posting would also alow us to see the complete on screen image.

Thanks for your kind words hhcanon - I will crop the top a bit and re-post it and I do take your point that it would be better if the whole image was visible on the post. But .................... I'm ashamed to admit I don't know how to reduce the image size Any help would be apreciated so that I can do this in future.
Cheers - Rob

[hhcanon]

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OK...you used Photobucket (how does he know that I hear you ask) LOL. You also shot it with a 400D / 200th sec / f6.3.
When u upload to Photo bucket you should be able to save the image. from here open it (double click) and then a there should be a menu allowing you to resize and save changes. I know Photobucket has changed a bit recently, so have a play around. Hope that helps. Some of the other guys here will probably explain better than me!
Cheers-Rob

[rob berry]

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Cropped as suggested and I think it does look better for it so thanks for the suggestion hhcanon. I think I may have worked out how to reduce the image size too - should have spent more time learing how to use Photobucket properly I guess

[hhcanon]

Re: Towering lilly pads

Brilliant..well for me anyway. I think the crop has produced a natural frame at the top.
Well done!
Now you know what youre doing, you 'could' make it a tad bigger. I know, its not easy.
I love these type of images (its just the shapes) so you may be surprised to know that a lot of them look good in B/W as well. There you are, Ive got youre creative juices flowing....
All the best
Rob

[rob berry]

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A lot of them look good in B/W as well.

Indeed they do Rob!

Thanks for your help

[hhcanon]

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There you go..onwards and upwards LOL

[hhcanon]

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Just thought...print 2 B/W and one colour mount in one frame and phone IKEA..on your way to a million! ha ha

[rob berry]

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Just thought...print 2 B/W and one colour mount in one frame and phone IKEA..on your way to a million! ha ha

LOL - I should be so lucky, but thanks again for the encouragement Rob

However if I do get the million from IKEA I'll send you an EOS 1Dx