Red Rose

[habakuk]

Is beauty flawed when someone has a "cracked petal"?
Or is this what gives the individual its personality and character?
Crackes are a sign of a life lived, of interaction with time,
of maturity. This beauty goes beyond perfection.

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[Uroplatus]

At first glance, the colors seem odd, a bit dull. The colors are almost that of over saturation on a pink color rose.  After reading your text, I see the color setting the mood a bit. Adding not a dull tone, but a "lived" tone. It was a red rose that has aged into something a bit less bright, not a young desired adolescence shade of red from a rose. This in return only represents a stage in life that doesn't lack less beauty, but has to be heard a bit more to understand its beauty.  Because of the torn petal, it has a story to tell, which will compensate for its lackluster due to age.     

[eob]

Perfection is always more boring than some cracks and wrinkles (unless you are a teenager in love ) When I look at this rose, I don't even notice any cracked petals. I love it the way it is...

[stormyva]

I know I dont comment too much on your shots... there isnt much to say about them, they are all great.  This is another great one... I like the color and the slight imperfection of the petal.  It would look great framed!

[habakuk]

Thank you all for your comments.

Well, it was the way the rose's petals form a cut-out that was capturing my attention. I do like the way the lines are centering the eye, which then quite easily follows upwards, towards the rose's heart/core.

The lighting was ambient light, and I shot this with my new EOS 100mm macro. I'm still learning to handle that shallow DOF, but think it is pretty much the way I wanted it to be here.

I also decidedly left out the center part of the rose, to achieve a different look at a oh so common subject matter.

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[BigTBird]

I have always equated perfection with artificiality in photograpjy.  Like a wildlife shot without the environment in it...a studio shot. 

[ATNO]

Took me a bit by surprise at first after reading the title "red" rose. Then I saw the picture and was like, ok? Red? *lol. But seriously that's just a beautiful shot. It reminded me from first glance of old age and maturity. I could expect to see that picture on a greeting card given by a mature adult to their beloved spouse.

[JaketheSnake]

I love the colors and the texture on the rose.  What I like most is the lighting.

[habakuk]

Thank you all for your comments.

Ok, red... not everything is red but there IS red in the frame, no?

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[eob]

It certainly isn't green or blue... 

[habakuk]

Cool. That means my monitor calibration isn't that bad.

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