Garden Flowers - just experimenting.

[Geoff F]

A couple of days ago when the sky was lightly overcast and I wanted a break from writing up my insect records, I just wandered about in my garden.



Offhand, I can't remember the name. A merge of two different focus points would have worked better, but this was outside and there was just sufficient breeze to move the position.

A rather pale Geranium, but I just couldn't find a perfect flower. I think the previous day's rain did a bit of damage.



This Sweet Pea didn't quite work out as planned. By now, there was a little bit of weak sunshine and I was struggling with exposure/saturation. But I was walking by, so I took a quick shot. Ideally, I would have shielded against the sun but at the time I didn't realise it was quite so bright.



And trying something different in the way of background. Just about worked, but probably something which needs a bit more experimentation. I was concentrating more on this than the actual flowers.



Still, it made a bit of a break; plus a beer between shooting!

[Shadowman]

Nice series.

[bnnrcn]

I especially like the composition in #2 and #3 has lovely shape and colours

[rtbaum]

The trick here is to drink the beer before shooting........more the blur.

[nikon66]

Nice colors, good done.

[deetheturk]

Very nice Geoff, beautiful colours!

[Geoff F]

Thanks for the comments.

The real reason for the experimentation was the marigold shot. The background is actually a printed image, on matte paper, to hide a very distracting real background.

I have used that trick before when shooting under 'studio' conditions but just wondered if I could get away with it for outside shots.