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Published: 2005-05-16 00:00:00 +0000 UTC; Views: 1760; Favourites: 38; Downloads: 131
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Another take on tulips. You've seen how beautiful they can be, ever seen them looking evil?
Shot on the same day as In Bloom .
Thanks to ~fuxia for the title!
Technical blabla: I seriously underexposed this shot, to turn the bright blue sky into a nighttime-looking dark blue, and employed my trusty flash, which reflected off the white tulips perfectly!
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haha. amazing. never thought id see a dark photograph of tulips.
they are usually associated with happiness.
nice!
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LOL tulip army xD it kind of scares me o_O which would be the first time a photo of flowers ever had that effect on me. Amazing! Reminds me of Sylvia Plath's poem titled 'Mushrooms'. (:
I don't like using flash usually but here it is WOW! makes it somewhat glaring to the eyes and thus more intimidating xD
but still they are beautiful : D
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Eek! Revenge of the tulips of the damned!
Nice shot, they look cool.
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hehehe that's pretty funny 
where are the zombies?
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There have only been a few rare occasions where I've put my flash to use for artistic purposes, and I gotta say you did a great job here. Maybe a little overexposed in the foreground but its not too bad, the tulip retains plenty of detail. I like the composition a lot, and the seemingly endless strech of flowers. Nice capture
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yeah i'm learning new things and possibilities with the flash all the time...i hope to try out some more funky stuff in the near future. thanks
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This is so surreal. I love the effect you made with it. Very cool and very original. 
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thanks babe! the title is all thanks to ~fuxia , she's one ball of creativity
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I really the fact that it is underexposed
you and your tullips
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haha...dutchman
i like the scene...but i would crop the top
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i've thought about cutting out the stop.. and tried it out,..but didn't like it as much
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Gosh! I really wanna go to holland during tulip harvest... and this is the reason why!!
i really like the lighting effect here!! Top job my friend!
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thanks man, for the 
if u ever come by, drop me a line and i'll show you were to go!
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kinda creepy. never thought of tulips like that before. i like how they go on in the distance.
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hey bebe! HFS! a real work of art! I love the contrast of beauty and evil in one. so surreal je likes!
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tu likes? thanks ess 
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haha what an evil title to begin with. title aside..
it looks like the tulips are coming alive with the coming of the sun. or like a huge cloud covering the light is parting for the tulips. did you ever see the pepsi x commercial where there was a division between light and dark? i can't help thinking of it.. i love the technique you used here mark. i want to keep looking at it from the bottom to top. it's like a little story i can loop in my head
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hmmm no i dont think i've seen that advert! now i wanna
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very very skilled photography! Just love the effect you created here!
absolutely beautiful my friend!
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yeah, the underexposure makes it more unique than the common tulip field's postcards (colouful tulips and blue sky). Though I still like tulips with blue background (it's more cheerful) but I can't deny that the idea of making this pic dark is cool. "different".
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Wow . . . those tulips look possessed, and there are so many of them!! I really like this.
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Wow, great use of lighting. You have managed to make an original shot out what is usually a pretty generic angle. I think there might be a bit of flat white coming through due to the flash, or maybe it needs to be toned down a bit to get more detail in a few of the floweres. But pretty awesome shot. I would never have thought about doing a flower shot this way. Did you use an inbuilt flash? If so you can try placing a bit of masking tape or aven a post it strip directly over the flash to difuse the impact of the light. You can get some awesome lighting like this. Works almost like a filter.
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thanks for yet another useful and insightful comment
actually i used my SB-600 Speedlight, which has a built-in diffuser (although i don't remember if i actually used the diffuser here)
i did try to tweak levels and curves to get the most detail i could in the petals, without losing the vibrancy of the shot, and this is what i came up with
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DAMN!! they do look menacing. like a scene from one of those stephen king movies. i like...
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