Electricity

Gallery: FloraPosted July 3, 2011146 views14 comments

Hi all,

The Spiderwort is one of the most unique flowers I have ever worked with. The colors are extremely vivid, with wild patterns and they only open for a few hours in the morning before completely closing up. This was shot I took from late last Summer when they were at their peak. They are now finally blooming again and I can't wait to see what new patterns they show off. I cloned out some of the small yellow pollen that offset the balance, applied some dodge and burn and stacked 3 images for select DoF.

D90
110mm
f13
Natural light

C&C welcome and thanks for viewing.

Comments

14 comments

Comment posted by Ramamohan Pai on July 3, 2011 at 6:42 PM

Some nice magnification there, Morgan

- those stripy threads resolve at higher magnifications. Yellow on Blue is always a winner and this one is no exception.

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Comment posted by Patricia Brundage on July 3, 2011 at 7:51 PM

Blue Electric or Blue Lightning. Interesting flower and presentation. Nice work!

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Comment posted by Bill Fach on July 3, 2011 at 8:57 PM

Morgan: Electric indeed! Nice work on the stack as well. 2 thumbs up. >=))>

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Comment posted by Pat Sampson on July 3, 2011 at 9:07 PM

Love the color Morgan. Also the pov. My only reservation is the oof oragenish/yellow anthers? at the top of the subject against the black bg and the other one on the viewer's left. Because of their color and isolation, my eye goes right to the top one and when I see that it's not in sharp focus I head for the other one, which is also out of focus. After that I go to the front but even though the front anther is in sharp focus, my eye keeps drifting back to the top anther. I never really find a place to rest the eye. This is not a critical analysis, it's just a blow by blow of my focus of attention wandering around in the image. (smile) Regardless, it's a neat subject and a striking image.

pat

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Comment posted by Peter Conway on July 4, 2011 at 9:09 AM

It is very electric as presented. It would be fun to see this with a bunch of stacks to give great DOF.

Peter

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Comment posted by Morgan Casey on July 4, 2011 at 9:28 AM

Thanks for all the comments and suggestions everyone!

Pat - Your suggestion about the anthers is very interesting and will definitely keep that in mind when I start working with them again this week.
Peter - That's something I was going to try with the next one.

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Comment posted by Ian Wolfenden on July 4, 2011 at 11:00 AM

Wonderfully dynamic effect, Morgan, with just marvellous colour combinations. I don't know whether it would have been easy ( or desirable ? ) to get all the anthers sharp; that might be my only nit re a truly eye catching image.

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Comment posted by Bob&Charly Nelson on July 4, 2011 at 3:18 PM

Wonderfully electric Morgan, sweet colors and composition.
Bob

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Comment posted by Morris McClung on July 4, 2011 at 4:36 PM

I love these flowers and you've brought a marvelous twist to an image of these.

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Comment posted by Gary Yeoh on July 4, 2011 at 8:36 PM

Morgan:
A very engaging image with good details and strong colors. The orange anthers does not distract me much and the sharp stigma tends to anchor the image. I might darken the white/green base of the flower a little.

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Comment posted by Miro Susta on July 5, 2011 at 6:23 AM

Beautiful colours, excellent DOF.

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Comment posted by Derek Yow on July 5, 2011 at 1:11 PM

Pretty wicked Morgan!!

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Comment posted by Giuseppe Guadagno on July 5, 2011 at 5:04 PM

The contrast of cold blue and warm yellow of a Spiderwort is unique. A beautiful photo of a beautiful flower, Morgan.
Take care.

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Comment posted by Fabio Giarrizzo on July 5, 2011 at 5:18 PM

This is beautiful indeed- Your composition choice is perfect, and the graphic effect of the chromatic contrast is gorgeous- My best congrats, Fabio

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