Opening sunflower

Gallery: FloraPosted August 14, 2012149 views18 comments

A number of people in our area raise fields of sunflowers to sell or just for the beauty of it. I recently was able to spend some time on an overcast day in one of these fields, immersed in sunflowers, taking many photos. It was fairly breezy but I shot in burst mode and was able to have a high shutter speed due to all the brightness around me from the sunflowers, plus a higher ISO. Many got surprisingly good in spite of the wind so I may have to start a sunflower series!

Canon Rebel T1i. 180mm macro lens. F/3.5 for 1/2500 sec. ISO 400. Tripod mounted, natural lighting.

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18 comments

Comment posted by scott lanz on August 14, 2012 at 9:52 PM

Dee-lightful, Carolyn. My kind of image. Gorgeous background, and I like the semi-bashful beautiful specimen featured here.

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Comment posted by Shrinivas Sharma on August 14, 2012 at 9:55 PM

stunning. Excellent focus, colors , DOF & terrific background.

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Comment posted by Bill Fach on August 14, 2012 at 10:14 PM

Carolyn: GREAT subject, colors and capture. Beautiful shot. >=))>

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Comment posted by Mark Windom on August 14, 2012 at 11:08 PM

When I first saw this and before I read your description I was thinking it looked windblown (which is a good thing). I don't know if those petals are leaning toward the center because of the wind but I sure like the overall look of this. Nice stuff.

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Comment posted by Lon Sharp on August 14, 2012 at 11:26 PM

Lovely!

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Comment posted by Jaymes Dempsey on August 14, 2012 at 11:29 PM

Beautiful! Great depth of field, and I love those colors!

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Comment posted by SandyRichardsBrown on August 15, 2012 at 1:00 AM

Lovely - fine detail in th head and a beautiful interesting flower you chose to highlight. Perfect DOF to render the stem and BG nicely OOF .
Exceptional image!

Sandy

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Comment posted by Brigitte Lorenz on August 15, 2012 at 4:19 AM

Just beautiful, Carolyn...I like this a lot!!!!

Brigitte

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Comment posted by Bob&Charly Nelson on August 15, 2012 at 6:28 AM

What a fantastic portrait Carolyn. Well seen and handled.
Bob

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Comment posted by Eirini Pajak on August 15, 2012 at 12:25 PM

It looks like it's just waking up with only one eye open! Nice!

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Comment posted by Albert Darmo on August 15, 2012 at 9:42 PM

Hi Carolyn

Breathtaking composition, with sublime light and color

Albert Darmo

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Comment posted by Gary Yeoh on August 16, 2012 at 6:44 AM

Carolyn:
Whoa! a sunflower with personality, looking a little shy or playing peek-a-boo. Love this.

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Comment posted by Larry Lynch on August 16, 2012 at 2:06 PM

Love the warm tones in this. Beautiful focus leading to the bloom. Terrific work.

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Comment posted by Lorna Taylor on August 16, 2012 at 5:51 PM

Carolyn that is the lovely coy looking Sunflower I have ever seen. It is pretending to be all shy and bashful but knows just how beautiful it really is !! Stunning work !

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Comment posted by Debbie Yarra on August 19, 2012 at 12:53 AM

I love this.... you handled all the technical stuff very well and found the most lovely specimen! Beautiful!

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Comment posted by Morris McClung on August 22, 2012 at 6:11 PM

Wow, Fan-tastic!

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Comment posted by Robert Dayton on August 22, 2012 at 7:08 PM

Striking, Carolyn! Unique in the way some of the petals fold on the left. Good color and DOF choice.

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Comment posted by Mohammad Hosseini on September 21, 2012 at 1:01 PM

This is an awesome image. I like it half opened and the golden BG. Very sharp in the center. Great one.

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