Colorful Coneflowers

Gallery: FloraPosted August 3, 2014154 views7 comments

The local gardens has a new variety of coneflower with different colors on the same plant. This was taken after the morning after a rain shower. Battling the wind, but I liked the textured bg produced by greater dof. D600, 150 macro, f20, 1/40, iso 640, cpl (to reduce glare from the wet leaves), tripod. Comments, questions and suggestions welcome.

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7 comments

Comment posted by Ian Wolfenden on August 4, 2014 at 1:34 PM

Love the bold colour combinations, Scott, and the corner setting of the flower centre. Excellent dof and nice sharpness in the stamens.

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Comment posted by Mark Seaver on August 4, 2014 at 6:29 PM

Neat view of this cone flower hybrid, Scott. I like the focus on the flower center and the interesting blotches of color in the far background. A naturalist friend claims that a lot of these hybrids don't attract bees...

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Comment posted by Ramamohan Pai on August 4, 2014 at 7:49 PM

Scott - Fine center in the corner composition. I agree with you that the textured backgrounds managed well look more pleasing that all plain ones. Those tiny water drops/dew in the center also catch my interest.

We have plenty of these growing at the local gardens. I have to watch if Bees favor this flower or not but Butterflies sure do.

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Comment posted by Albert Darmo on August 5, 2014 at 4:13 PM

Hi Scott

Love the lavish color that abounds in this image

the corner composition is perfectly done. this is real eye candy

Albert Darmo
Canada

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Comment posted by Sanjay Sundaram on August 5, 2014 at 8:52 PM

Very well composed Scott. The shiny center is very well captured and the background colors add a lot to the image. Well done!

Sanjay

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Comment posted by Angela Classen on August 5, 2014 at 9:33 PM

Love all the colors in this one, especially the background. Great details in the center and the sepals. Very nicely done!

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Comment posted by Bill Fach on August 9, 2014 at 2:56 PM

Scott: Terrific POV and DOF/POF choice. The BG suits me really well. Good call on using the polarizer; an underutilized tool for flora images. Most excellent.>=))>

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