Macro flower photographs

Andrea, I think I prefer the color....the B&W lacks a dramatic black and white contrast and is more into greys...just my opinion....

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Originally Posted by Nat

Andrea, I think I prefer the color....the B&W lacks a dramatic black and white contrast and is more into greys...just my opinion....

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Thanks Nat.

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Originally Posted by Letrow

Looks a bit like anthrrhinium, but I'll try to check. Quite delicate, lovely.

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Thanks Peter. Indeed it looks like one of the many antirrhinum, but it is a peculiar variety, in that it was fully blossomed in april at over 1000 m above sea level, under the shadow of a compact beech wood. I am following your lead, anyway.

I am just learning macro, bought my first lens recently (Sigma 150mm - older model, no VR) for Nikon D7000). Still don't have an off-camera flash, but will be purchasing one soon. These might not be great, but I am impressed with the detail! Here in Vermont, Spring is just springing into action, so the plants and flowers are just now coming to life.

https://www.cambridgeincolour.com/fo...2&d=1366554331

This is a leaf bud from a Variegated Wiegela bush.


https://www.cambridgeincolour.com/fo...3&d=1366554380

http://i34.tinypic.com/23utt1c.jpg

These are flowers found in some moss on a rock.

Still need a lot of practice, but have to start somewhere!

Susan

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Originally Posted by Nat

Andrea, I think I prefer the color....the B&W lacks a dramatic black and white contrast and is more into greys...just my opinion....

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I like the B&W actually, although the colour looks great as well. It's just that the structure of the petals does look good in B&W and you keep looking at it.

[QUOTE=Green Mountain Girl;306005]I am just learning macro, bought my first lens recently (Sigma 150mm - older model, no VR) for Nikon D7000). Still don't have an off-camera flash, but will be purchasing one soon. These might not be great, but I am impressed with the detail! Here in Vermont, Spring is just springing into action, so the plants and flowers are just now coming to life.
Susan [QUOTE]
It's nice to see that detail in your photos suddenly, isn't it? There is a lot to discover still.

Finally some blossom here. This is always one of the first to come, but it is quite delicate. After a week or two and a bit of wind they will all be gone.

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Prunus

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Originally Posted by Letrow

It's nice to see that detail in your photos suddenly, isn't it? There is a lot to discover still.

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Thanks Peter! I am definitely looking forward to discovering more... There are a lot of beautiful photographs in this thread, and I am already understanding how much focus (pun intended!) it requires to take them.

Susan

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Originally Posted by RaZZ3R

Thanks for the tip, those "vague spots" where so random that I only realize them after I got home with the pictures, I like shooting wide open but sometimes going down to f 4-5.6 give you some nice hexagonal light spots bokeh if you use them to your advantage, ex (off topic subject):

http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/7411/1060518z.jpg
(I wanted to get him in focus but he was dropping, from a tree, really fast and all swirly so I had to open up the aperture for more DOF, but still fails just before he got on the ground, using manual focus lenses has it's disadvantages, still it's not all waysted shutter click ^_^)

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Maybe not perfect (none of mine are :-%) but still pretty cool. Thanks!

Two older roses

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8102/8...7da0ac70_b.jpg

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8524/8...4afa650c_b.jpg

Gone now.

Beautiful shots Peter, the old roses are very interesting and I love the 3rd shot of the blossoming tree. Is it a plum?

Here is a plum from Tuscany
http://i39.tinypic.com/1hu34.jpg

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Originally Posted by Letrow

I like the B&W actually, although the colour looks great as well. It's just that the structure of the petals does look good in B&W and you keep looking at it.

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The intent of the B&W was indeed that of pushing the structure of the petals. But the color version looks nice too. As usually it happens my wife and me have different opinions. I like more the B&W version, she likes more the colours one...
Thanks for the comment.

A.

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Originally Posted by Franci

Beautiful shots Peter, the old roses are very interesting and I love the 3rd shot of the blossoming tree. Is it a plum?

Here is a plum from Tuscany

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It isn't a plum, more an ornamental shrub. The sortname is prunus.

But we do have a plum in the garden as well and it flowered a week after the other (pink) one.

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8256/8...eae1fb7a_b.jpg

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8544/8...0595f0f2_b.jpg

The flowers look almost the same and are the same size as the other. This one will have plums though in a few months time.

In my area, your blossom "prunus" is called a flowering plum....although we never have fruit on it, perhaps because we have the wrong climate, but it is mostly used as an ornamental shrub/tree....and then we have fruit trees that bear plums....

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8259/8...8faf007a_b.jpg

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One of the ribes in my garden

I took these shots yesterday during our excursion to Pizzo Deta, in the group of Mounts Ernici, Apennines, not far from Rome.

#1
http://i42.tinypic.com/vg33g8.jpg
Nikon D800, Zeiss Distagon T* 2.8/25 ZF .2, Iso 100, f/4.5, 1/320 sec

#2
http://i42.tinypic.com/9hrz8x.jpg
Nikon D800, Zeiss Distagon T* 2.8/25 ZF .2, Iso 100, f/7.1, 1/200 sec

#1 should be a wild orchid, #2 I do not know.

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I like number two best, lovely little flowers. That 25mm lens is very nice.

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Originally Posted by Letrow

I like number two best, lovely little flowers. That 25mm lens is very nice.

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The #1 is more usual, the #2 is more natural.

Yes, the 25mm is really a good lens, if manual focus does not disturb you. It is really sharp an luminous.

It's dull and rainy, but I took out the macro ring flash and the 105mm Nikkor lens on the daisy...funny how the ring flash puts two eyes in the raindrops....

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...psbeb4bc63.jpg

Quite nice with those drops hanging there.