Sunny Sunflower

Gallery: FloraPosted August 18, 201282 views12 comments

A little twist to shooting the sunflower. Backlit and blown background. Hope you like it.

Sony a77
70-200 f2.8 G Sony
tripod and ball head

Comments

12 comments

Comment posted by Ken Smith on August 18, 2012 at 10:21 AM

I like the effect...petals look like fabric blowing in a wind. Great details too. A little creativity works!

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Comment posted by Bob&Charly Nelson on August 18, 2012 at 11:07 AM

Really well created and captured Rick. the back lighting sure works in this.
Bob

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Comment posted by Mike Ramy on August 18, 2012 at 2:06 PM

Rick,
Well done, The BG is excellant with great detail in the flower.

Registered on June 16, 2012, 567 Posts, 2809 Comments

Comment posted by Peter Cross on August 18, 2012 at 2:17 PM

Lots of nice sunflower images lately and yours continues the trend. I've been very interested in the radial pattern in the head formed by the immaure seeds. Just love the way they loop around and you can see dozens of ways to follow them. I enjoyed doing that with yours as well. Thanks.

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Comment posted by Ramamohan Pai on August 18, 2012 at 5:22 PM

Rick - Love how the light has illuminated and brought foward the fine details in the petals and the repeating patterns in the center. It might be good to see if pulling back some exposure from the yellows help.

I also see some yellow/green patches in the background - easily dealt with in Photoshop.

Registered on November 1, 2003, 550 Posts, 9037 Comments

Comment posted by Albert Darmo on August 18, 2012 at 10:33 PM

Hi Rick

You captured the detail of the patterns and shapes wonderfully well

the high-key effect is a bonus here

Albert Darmo

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Comment posted by Morris McClung on August 19, 2012 at 6:51 PM

The detail in the center is just sick, Rick! The high-key effect is excellent as well. Super work!

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Comment posted by scott lanz on August 19, 2012 at 8:57 PM

Excellent, Rick. Very striking. The radiant petals work well with the high-key bg.

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Comment posted by Rob Graham on August 20, 2012 at 11:46 PM

Intriguing technique, Rick. I like the high-key effect, which allowed you to bring out the details and patterns in the center. I agree that the background needs cleaned up a bit to complete the image. Can you get any more detail in the petals?

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Comment posted by Gary Yeoh on August 21, 2012 at 8:32 PM

Rick
I like what you are doing here and I can see a transformation from a documentary to creative/artistic style. Love the bright yellow petal rim looking like solar flare. The details in the center is exquisite. Clean up the bg and this worthy of a large print.

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Comment posted by Robert Dayton on August 22, 2012 at 7:17 PM

I like it, including the background. It pays to experiment and be daring.
I'm surprised that you were able to get such detailed sharpness with such
a shallow DOF (2.8). Thanks for sharing, Rick.

Registered on November 11, 2008, 281 Posts, 3958 Comments

Comment posted by Jay Levin on August 24, 2012 at 2:50 PM

A super artistic image. The detail is incredible, and the back lighting is magic.

Registered on April 24, 2009, 21 Posts, 184 Comments