You don't bring me Flowers anymore.

[Jim B.]

Heirloom Gladiolus

[Maritimer1]

Finally had time to look at some older posts. WOW! All of your flower photographs are gorgeous! Talk about inspiration

Myra

[Crovean]

[ScoutR]

Just some weeds, but if it has a flower I shoot it.

Not sure what this one is

1/60s: f6.3: ISO 800: 48mm


Chickory: One of my favourite weeds. If I still had a garden I would plant chickory and Queen Annes Lace in some part of it. I really like the way the two look together. I'm starting to see large areas of it now and will try to get some shots.
Does anyone else ever see them together. I'd love to see some of your shots

1/40s: f6.3: ISO 800: 55mm

Wendy

[Loose Canon]

Water Lily

[Loose Canon]

Blue Phlox
Insect Unknown

[triggerhappy]

Sorry. I don't know the name of the flower.

Mark

[dnomyar]

mark here is my share

[triggerhappy]

arigatou ne. Nice one Mon.

Keep it coming.


Mark

[John C]

Hydrangea just after a rain. Photo taken about one month ago using a Metz ringflash.

John C.

[Wirefox]

First two are reworks of some older images taken with Zuiko 50mm reversed on 40D body. 3rd image is more recent.

[carregwen]

Mmmmm! that is lush... mind me asking how you did it?

[ScoutR]

Sigh, I'm depressed again. 1 & 3 are stunning. Favourite is #1. I love the white on white on white and the soft overall look.

Wendy

[ScoutR]

Hydrangea just after a rain. Photo taken about one month ago using a Metz ringflash.

John C.

This is very good. I find it very difficult to get a good composition with a group of florets, but this works nicely to my eyes. The texture in the petals is quite nice too.

Wendy

[John C]

Thanks. Somehow there is balance here with the three central dots and the details on the petals - enough to keep the eye busy. The ringflash heavily weighted to one side created some nice contrast. Of course, the flowers were a truly beautiful color. This would probably work as a black and white photo but not as well as the color.

[Loose Canon]

Daffodil

[Jim B.]

Ironweed

[Jim B.]

[Wirefox]

Mmmmm! that is lush... mind me asking how you did it?

Rob, if I knew that I would be good at this game. The flower was in shade but the high sun was just catching the flower head. So it was 400 iso to force fast shutter which seemed to make the shady background darker and the flower head bright. Used PP to get a cool white balance and then the black dropper in levels to take darken the background further. Hope that makes sense

Sigh, I'm depressed again. 1 & 3 are stunning. Favourite is #1. I love the white on white on white and the soft overall look.

Wendy I have to do something other than a straight flower shot since my main lens is just not good enough to cut it. Lighting is one way to get something that bit different and I have gone to the extreme of reversing a 30 year old lens on my camera body because I knew it would give me very shallow DoF and the background almost painterly. I like the white on white too. If I go for the straight flower shot I get something like this...



or this



I got bored with these so I tried a stock shot and pushed the PP which started to get much more interesting





If I wanted to get technically excellent botanical representations I would have to splash out £750 or more so I have to try and get creative with the milk bottle I have....for the time being...but even with better glass I will just get a better class of sensor scribble

Steve

[PopsPhotos]

After the flower, we have ...



Pops