Wings

Gallery: FloraPosted April 13, 2017226 views6 comments

The cactus flowers were amazing a couple weeks ago at our favorite gardens here in Southern California. This reminded me of wings for some reason. Canon 5D3, f16, 1/2500 sec, iso 500, -0.7 EV, 100-400 ISL with 1.4 TC at 560 mm, Handheld, Spot Metering, 90 % of original, some rotation to make the wings even. Selective darkening of BG and lightening of flowers.

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6 comments

Comment posted by SandyRichardsBrown on April 13, 2017 at 5:02 AM

Beautiful! The yellow is almost translucent and glows, and the spikey darker BG sets off the blooms perfectly. .
Lovely group of cactus flowers, and a great perspective.
There are several dark blips on the petals that you might consider removing
Otherwise, just about perfect. Very sweet image!
(And I like the frame sad

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Sandy

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Comment posted by Philip Hodgkins on April 13, 2017 at 11:06 AM

Superb job of processing! Techs look good. You have made a lovely image! devil

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Comment posted by Giuseppe Guadagno on April 13, 2017 at 5:39 PM

Really nice these cactus flowers and well represented. For my personal taste the lights in the center ot the 'wings' are a bit to high IMO.

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Comment posted by Mark Seaver on April 14, 2017 at 11:52 AM

I'm jealous, cacti in bloom always seem special (to someone from a non-desert environment). This is a fine look at this cluster of blooms, with great details in the blooms. As someone who likes the spines too, I'd like to have less darkening of the non-flower parts even as I recognize that attractiveness of your processing to emphasize the blooms.

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Comment posted by Bill Fach on April 16, 2017 at 9:40 PM

Ed: Aptly titled and superbly captured. Really nice use of your long lens rig. Many thumbs up! >=))>

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Comment posted by SandyRichardsBrown on April 24, 2017 at 1:11 AM

Congrats on a fine WP!
Sandy

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