Periwinkle Bud

Gallery: FloraPosted June 18, 2012110 views13 comments

What the title says. Shooting these is a pain because the flowers in bloom impede them or lie just below them.

This is a stack of some 7 photos (even though I shot some 20 odd photos, these 7 by trial and error gave me this photo, the 20 for some reason did not). This has also undergone some Photoshop work, so if its obvious, blame it on my inexperience.

ND300s, AFD200mm F/4 Micronikkor @ F/6.3 with 36mm of ET, 1/250 Sec, ISO400, Diffuser, Tripod and Remote Release.

Thanks a lot for your comments on Geranium Up Close and let me know what you think of this one.

Comments

13 comments

Comment posted by Rick Turner on June 18, 2012 at 10:41 PM

Dreamlike capture. Relaxing and beautiful

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Comment posted by Wayne Jones on June 18, 2012 at 10:46 PM

Ram, the colors, textures and lines here are absolutely gorgeous! Of course, the water drops are another lovely bonus. The only thing obvious about the Photoshop work, is that it looks fine. I can't even tell what you did. I guess that's to be expected with a stack, where there is one part of the image sharp and the rest way out of focus, but if you did anything not related to focus, it looks perfectly natural.

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Comment posted by Barb Pflaum on June 18, 2012 at 10:52 PM

Beautiful lines and soft dreamy bg. And I love the water drops. Very nicely done!

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Comment posted by Gary Yeoh on June 18, 2012 at 11:34 PM

Ram:
Gorgeous image. From the thumbnail, it looked like a simple shallow DOF shot but there are more to see on opening this up. The water droplets are a bonus. The only thing 'unnatural' about this the relatively abrupt transition from sharp to pink haze - guess this is due to the stack effect - still a very beautiful image.

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Comment posted by Lorna Taylor on June 18, 2012 at 11:35 PM

So, so lovely a vision in Violet !

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Comment posted by May Haga on June 19, 2012 at 9:46 AM

Beautiful swirl in a mist of purple.
May

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Comment posted by Mark Windom on June 19, 2012 at 11:15 AM

Nice! Like how the flower seems to be rising from the depths, so to speak. You did a great job with the stack; I seem to have trouble getting things like the spines sharply rendered, you obviously did not.

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Comment posted by Philip Hodgkins on June 19, 2012 at 3:10 PM

Looks like a wave of grape!

Getting something like this to work out of a stack is a bear! I think you did well. If Gary had not mentioned it, I would never have noticed the abrupt transition from in focus to OOF. The point he made is valid though. The mind has to believe what the eye sees, or at least suspend disbelief. Something to work on, eh?

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Comment posted by Howard Cheek on June 19, 2012 at 4:22 PM

So this is how you do it?

Ditto what Wayne said..I could not have said it better

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Comment posted by Mark Seaver on June 19, 2012 at 5:43 PM

Great look at a purple swirl...I'm thinking of ice cream now.

The sharpness goes just far enough to show off the water drops. Great image.

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Comment posted by Nathan Buck on June 21, 2012 at 11:57 AM

Works for me Ram. I like the in focus flower emerging from the purple haze. Very, very nice.

Nathan

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Comment posted by Eirini Pajak on June 21, 2012 at 12:22 PM

I really like this! I like the water droplets & your decision on where to stop & start the stack!
Wonderful image!

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Comment posted by Luke Ormand on June 23, 2012 at 3:01 PM

Great view of this flower and it's something different and unique. I like the little "barbs" coming off the top and the softness of the background is really nice. The large water droplet I feel is a little out of place - but doesn't kill the image

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