Last year Paul Coughlin done a talk in our Photography Club and I was more then just impressed by his shots. Not surprising if you take a look at his credentials.... https://www.facebook.com/pages/Paul-Coghlin-Fine-Art-Photography/300282254754 . I especially liked his monochrome flower shots and although I would never be able to re-create such beauty I thought I take his shot for inspiration to do some flower shots of my own. My first attempts were to based on Mr Coughlin's monochrome shots.
Although I really do like them I then tried to process the images so that I could keep the colors of the flowers but still retain the black background as that was what attracted me to the images in the first place.
I found that some of the images really suited the monochrome conversion while others, such as the oriental lilliy the colored version is just as nice.
I am planning to create around 30 images of this kind, each with a different plant. I am just not sure as yet if I should keep them monochrome as it was planned to start with, or if I should do some of them in color. This project is the suppose to be the start to furnish another exhibition at the end of the year and I would like to find out what would please people more.... monochrome, color or a bit of both. Feedback would be very much appreciated. xx
