Wild Geranium

Gallery: FloraPosted May 11, 201048 views7 comments

The wind finally settled for a bit so I was able to get out and photograph some wild flowers. These are abundant right now and I hope to be able to go out and capture some more images and play with some different compositions. I cropped this one square to get rid of wasted space on the left of the image, but I wanted to capture the shadow of the stamens in the late evening light.

Canon 7D, Manual exposure with tripod, Canon 100mm macro, 1/80sec, F/2.8, 100 ISO, RAW conversion.

Thanks for looking and all C&C welcomed.

Comments

7 comments

Comment posted by Ramamohan Pai on May 11, 2010 at 10:01 PM

John, The soft evening light has worked in your favour by producing soft shadows. Like the details in the petals and the choice of DOF which covers all the stamens.

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Comment posted by Morris McClung on May 11, 2010 at 10:36 PM

Great color and nice detail. Well done.

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Comment posted by Gary Yeoh on May 12, 2010 at 3:21 AM

John:
Yes the shadow looks good. Would like to have a bit more DOF perhaps.

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Comment posted by John&Patty Benway on May 12, 2010 at 6:12 AM

Great job John, very nice color and composition.
John

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Comment posted by Mike Gallo on May 13, 2010 at 10:30 AM

well captured John, I like how all of the stamens are in focus

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Comment posted by Bill Fach on May 14, 2010 at 1:26 PM

John: I really like the play of light and shadow here and the square crop works really well.