Warming

Gallery: FloraPosted April 6, 2010623 views7 comments

This is a Virginia Bluebell in Manassas NBP. I noticed the sun lighting up some of the blooms, and thought I'd get a close up. But with how tiny the flowers are, I couldn't get close enough (no macro lens). This was my attempt to make something out of it, and I actually was pleasantly surprised looking at the image on the monitor; Sort of an environmental portrait I think. I left the bright sun and bit of lens flare in, but I'm not sold on that.

Thanks for looking!

Olympus E-520
Zuiko 12-60 @ 12mm
ISO 100
f/6.3
1/400
Handheld
PS CS4 for processing including some cropping to move the flowers off-center

Comments

7 comments

Comment posted by Gary Yeoh on April 7, 2010 at 12:45 AM

David:
Very nice environmental perspective. You must be on you belly to take this HH from such a low angle. The lens flare is not problematic.

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Comment posted by John Tobias on April 7, 2010 at 9:45 AM

Very nice shot, color is great and fine detail. IMHO the tree trunk in the BG coming up from behind the flowers is a bit distracting. IF you could have shift over to avoid it the image would be better. Thanks for posting

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Comment posted by Wayne Jones on April 7, 2010 at 2:09 PM

This is indeed a nice environmental portrait (all the rage in the human portrait business, too). I think for a macro shot, the deep shadows may have been a problem, but this lighting really works well in this context. I like seeing the environment so much, now I am wondering what's outide of the frame on the bottom, but I suppose this would turn into a landscape shot if it was a lot wider.

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Comment posted by Larry Lynch on April 7, 2010 at 8:34 PM

Beautiful lighting and capture. Excellent work.

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Comment posted by Morris McClung on April 7, 2010 at 9:22 PM

I agree it is a nice environmental portrait, and I would just crop the partial bloom on the left. A happy kind of shot.

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Comment posted by Bill Fach on April 8, 2010 at 12:16 AM

David: Beautiful little scene nicely captured. I would crop a little from the left to get rid of the partial bloom and then crop pretty aggressively from the top to eliminate all of the really bright BG area. I would keep some of the sky but the real bright area is a major negative for me. >=))>

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Comment posted by Bernie Kasper on April 8, 2010 at 8:19 PM

Great shot David, I have been seeing this scene played out over my neck of the woods all week, wonderful shot !!

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