Parrot Tulip

Gallery: FloraPosted April 13, 201148 views6 comments

Parrot tulips are a personal favorite variety. The local bulb farm said they are generally late bloomers among the tulips but I found this and a few others opening to make an appearance.
This is a stacked 18 image shot taken yesterday. No flash

Larger version available, thanks for looking!

canon 7D
canon 100mm macro f2.8L IS USM
F/4.0 -1 1/2500 ISO 100
Tripod, StackShot motorized rail, Plamp to combat breezes, CS4, LR2, NIK Suite including "classic soft focus"

Comments

6 comments

Comment posted by Pat Sampson on April 13, 2011 at 5:02 PM

Excellent detail and fine composition Craig. I particularly like your controlled shallow dof in the bg as well as the color in the bg for that matter, Beautiful work.

pat

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Comment posted by Michael Lowe on April 13, 2011 at 6:38 PM

Nice work, Craig. If I could sell a few more prints, maybe I could afford the stackshot rail.

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Comment posted by Barbara Graham on April 13, 2011 at 7:10 PM

Viewing the larger version is a must for this one. The larger version is overwhelmingly exquisite. It's an image you'd look at whenever you wanted to see something beautiful.

Registered on July 27, 2010, 1310 Posts, 5035 Comments

Comment posted by Gary Yeoh on April 13, 2011 at 10:17 PM

Craig:
This is exquisitely beautiful. The sheen on the petals and the textures are just so nicely done. Interesting that you take the trouble to produce a sharp image and then softening it with soft focus... with great effect. The only minor nit the the strong shadow just to the left of the stem beneath the flower which tends to draw the eye... you might like to change that to the brown bg color with viveza or blur the border of the shadow. A very fine image

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Comment posted by Bob Duff on April 14, 2011 at 6:52 AM

Parrots are my favourite tulips as well. I really like the light and sheen on the bloom. A little confused as to why you felt you needed to do a 18 image stack though other than because you wanted to.

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Comment posted by Bernie Kasper on April 14, 2011 at 1:04 PM

Beautiful Craig..the light in this is wonderful, a slight crop on the left imho would be enhance even more !!

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