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Iris - ABree - Sep 17, 2007

A friend of mine grows these beautiful flowers and entered this bloom in the local garden show and took out 1st place.

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#2 Then I played with it in photoshop, just to soften it a bit...


#3


Comments welcome.

Sharon

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Iris - Irma - Sep 17, 2007

Those are wonderful pictures Sharon...
Gorgeous light and detail... I like a lot the colors, very beautiful white...

Wouldn't you mind to share your settings and light conditions?

I tried once to take a white tulip in black backgroud, turned out well but the white was not as yours. I would love to try again..

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Iris - ABree - Sep 17, 2007

Thanks Irma, I was surprised at how much detail was in these....

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AE, Shutter 1/40, f5.6, ISO 100, 350D, Sigma 70-300mm@300mm macro,
Exposure Compensation -2/3, taken about 3.30pm

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AE, Shutter 0.3, f22, ISO 100, 350D, Sigma 70-300mm @ 190mm,
Exposure Compensation -2/3, taken about 7.30am

The lighting is natural. We have a large sunroom with windows on 3 sides, I set up with the black backdrop (tshirt) about a foot behind the subject, but in front of the window. Then use the 300mm so I don't get close enough to cast a shadow and it blurs the background nicely. I don't have lights or a light box, so I try to make the most of what I've got....

Thanks again, Sharon

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Iris - Pat - Sep 17, 2007

Beautiful shot!

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Iris - wulinka - Sep 17, 2007

I like the first one best, the softening doesn't really add anything for me.

nice shots!

uli

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Iris - Wedding Shooter - Sep 17, 2007

Very beautiful and I also prefer the non softened one.

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Iris - Zig - Sep 18, 2007

Nice, Sharon! Nice bit of thoughtful exposure comp; I wonder, with a zoom lens, if f.22 has been too soft? Dunno, difficult to say here....mind you, I do remember purposefully choosing a minute aperture just for this.
I prefer the vertical format: more graceful and with more movement somehow..yet I'm biased as I usually shoot everything vertically anyway.
Have you tried using the dodge tool, set to highlights, on bits that need to be better-lit? I've found this can give plant colours a bit of "shimmer" and a sense of the, er, praeter-natural...(I was just dying to use that word...)...

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Iris - Irma - Sep 18, 2007

Lucky you that you have that room Sharon...

My home is fairly dark, with very small windows, that is why most of the times I use the studio light for my flower pictures.

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