Macro flower photographs

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millepertius


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chicory

Both wild flowers that grew in a field near my holiday home in France. If anybody knows what they are, let me know...
...edit: thanks Remco for the names

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Originally Posted by Letrow

Both wild flowers that grew in a field near my holiday home in France. If anybody knows what they are, let me know...

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First one looks like a 'Millepertius',
second could be a Chicory or 'Laitue sauvage' (Cicerbita sp.)
(exact species is for both hard to tell from just a flower shot, especially for a beginner like me...)

These are both species that manage to flower in the hottest and driest months of the year

Remco

Peter, I do love blue flowers....:) The second one is particularly pretty and you've captured it so crisply. I've never seen it before - fascinating, actually.

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Originally Posted by Letrow

I have to think about that bokeh. It is quite noticeable in the two last ones especially. Not sure what I can do about though yet. Maybe something in Gimp. The way I photograph makes it impossible to improvise with a background (paper or such) that I would take along, so it has to happen in postprocessing.
Normally with my macro photos it would be fine, because the flowers are often tiny and as a result the bokeh is much, much vaguer. But the QAL is quite big, so...:o

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Oh, I know.... this is my conundrum, too. Something to think about but, maybe, later. I'm not sure if it's possible but, I think that I might have taken one too many photos of Queen Anne's Lace - between last year and this... No more for me, thanks! I'm full!:o

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Originally Posted by revi

First one looks like a 'Millepertius',
second could be a Chicory or 'Laitue sauvage' (Cicerbita sp.)
(exact species is for both hard to tell from just a flower shot, especially for a beginner like me...)

These are both species that manage to flower in the hottest and driest months of the year

Remco

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Thanks Remco. Now that you supplied me with names I could actually find them on wikipedia.

Pink Rose
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Originally Posted by knobspinner

Pink Rose
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6020/...7847d0a7_z.jpg

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Very pretty, soft light!

Two flowers that resemble each other slightly, but are completely different

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echinacea or coneflower

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leucanthemum (sunflower family)

Flowers I bought for my wife today.
Borrowed them back so I could take photo's. Loved the colours

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ok can someone define macro? I see lots of discrepancies when it comes to this term and I don't want to misuse the term....

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Originally Posted by MacrOdreams

ok can someone define macro? I see lots of discrepancies when it comes to this term and I don't want to misuse the term....

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Hi Kate,

A wonderful element of CiC (Cambridge in Color) is the tutorials that they have carefully assembled,
and made available to all. There is an excellent one on macro photography that should get you the
answer your after:

https://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tu...cro-lenses.htm

Mike

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Originally Posted by MacrOdreams

ok can someone define macro? I see lots of discrepancies when it comes to this term and I don't want to misuse the term....

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and, these very large threads are more like ongoing discussions and, back at the beginning, we decided that we weren't tremendously "picky" about it being true macro. Over in the buggy macro thread and that, oh, so scary spider thread, I think that they're more into the technically tiny macro world. (and, yes, I'm very tongue in cheek, here.;):))

Also, there are often individual's threads that go through that are more strictly macro. Here and here are two of mine.

Fall is in the air - the Mums are starting to bloom

https://www.cambridgeincolour.com/fo...1&d=1314766451

Wendy

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ok can someone define macro? I see lots of discrepancies when it comes to this term and I don't want to misuse the term....

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Real macro would be 1:1 at least Katelyn, but not every lens can do that (and TBH, not every flower can be photographed like that if you aim for the whole flower instead of just a tiny detail). So what you will see in this thread mainly are macro and close-up shots.

Mike's link to macro camera lenses states it as follows: However, "macro" is often used loosely to also include close-up photography, which applies to magnifications of about 1:10 or greater. We'll use this loose definition of macro for the rest of the tutorial...

If you can live with that...:D

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Originally Posted by Letrow

Real macro would be 1:1 at least Katelyn, but not every lens can do that (and TBH, not every flower can be photographed like that if you aim for the whole flower instead of just a tiny detail). So what you will see in this thread mainly are macro and close-up shots.

Mike's link to macro camera lenses states it as follows: However, "macro" is often used loosely to also include close-up photography, which applies to magnifications of about 1:10 or greater. We'll use this loose definition of macro for the rest of the tutorial...

If you can live with that...:D

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Thank you Peter, just the response I was looking for ;)

Close-ups using stacked 20+12mm tubes.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-y...10829_0373.jpg

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-x...10829_0328.jpg

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Originally Posted by Bobobird

Close-ups using stacked 20+12mm tubes.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-y...10829_0373.jpg

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-x...10829_0328.jpg

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I like them Bobo, the colours really pop out. On the first one I am in doubt about whether you should have cropped. The stalk distracts me slightly, but then the bokeh colouring comes over really well.

Thanks Peter.

There are only 4 things in that pic - the stalk, the pink and yellow bud behind it and the leaf. So it was either this square crop or a rectangular one to include the whole leaf and take out most of the stalk. It could have gone either way. Dave (or was it Donald) was saying to me in another thread that I should try different cropping so went square. :)

One other reason probably was that having the entire leaf would have given it more prominence and that may have detracted from the main subject and the overall balance.

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Originally Posted by ScoutR

Fall is in the air - the Mums are starting to bloom

https://www.cambridgeincolour.com/fo...1&d=1314766451

Wendy

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I love this one Wendy, great complimentary background colour.

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Originally Posted by Dave Humphries

I love this one Wendy, great complimentary background colour.

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Thank you Dave, this is one of my favourites so far this year. I don't usually get nice groupings but these grew that way which was very helpful and there was JUST enough foilage that I could get a nice background. :)

Thanks again for the feedback, I was beginning to doubt myself when no one commented. :(

Wendy