Macro flower photographs

[gpzt]

Unfortunately, no tripod at hand !

[Letrow]

These are a few of the images from a recent trip to the rose garden at Leu Garden, a botanical garden near Orlando, Florida. C&C always welcomed.

Good shots. I liked the first one best, I think because of the nice shadows.

[Letrow]

Unfortunately, no tripod at hand !

Nice colours Guy. It seems the tripod wasn't really needed.

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Dandelion

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Blossom

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Dandelion

[Dave Humphries]

Hi Peter,

Another three I'd have like to taken myself, the dandelion and blossom are particularly photogenic.

Walked past some nice blossom today (towards the end of a three hour walk) and didn't stop to shoot it - now wish I had!

Cheers,

[Letrow]

Hi Peter,

Another three I'd have like to taken myself, the dandelion and blossom are particularly photogenic.

Walked past some nice blossom today (towards the end of a three hour walk) and didn't stop to shoot it - now wish I had!

Cheers,

And this was a surprise blossom in my neighbourhood tbh. Most of the blossom was already gone a couple of weeks ago when it rained a lot.

[rtbaum]

Finally got off my duff and made a plamp..............Hooray!!

Cranesbill

[Letrow]

Nice one Randy, I always love those veins in the petals

[Letrow]

Fluitenkruid or Queen Anne's Lace

[purplehaze]

The one advantage to being stuck at home with a nasty cold is the opportunity to try to advance my macro skills.

The white balance in image #1 is off, but I liked the contrast of the pink and the teal, so I didn't correct it. I love the softness of the pink, but I'm wondering if it isn't a bit flat.

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I corrected the white balance (as per the grey card) and pushed the saturation in image #2. The background was black, but I found it too distracting, so I changed it using the hue eyedropper in Viveza. I see that, in the process of so doing, I created some halos. Are there multiple ways of dealing with these, or is my only option to clone them out? (I have spent a little too much time on the knitting needles these last few days and my fine motor control is a bit impaired at the moment.)

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Any and all C&C welcome.

[Letrow]

The one advantage to being stuck at home with a nasty cold is the opportunity to try to advance my macro skills.

The white balance in image #1 is off, but I liked the contrast of the pink and the teal, so I didn't correct it. I love the softness of the pink, but I'm wondering if it isn't a bit flat.

1.


I corrected the white balance (as per the grey card) and pushed the saturation in image #2. The background was black, but I found it too distracting, so I changed it using the hue eyedropper in Viveza. I see that, in the process of so doing, I created some halos. Are there multiple ways of dealing with these, or is my only option to clone them out? (I have spent a little too much time on the knitting needles these last few days and my fine motor control is a bit impaired at the moment.)

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Any and all C&C welcome.

I like the colour of the first one. The soft colour is lovely, maybe a little flat as you say. You could try just a bit of tweaking with saturation and see whether that livens it up.
All in all I like that photo best, because it shows the whole flower. The only distraction is the green at the bottom, but you could try to clone that out if it bothers you.

[purplehaze]

I like the colour of the first one. The soft colour is lovely, maybe a little flat as you say. You could try just a bit of tweaking with saturation and see whether that livens it up.
All in all I like that photo best, because it shows the whole flower. The only distraction is the green at the bottom, but you could try to clone that out if it bothers you.

Thanks, Peter! I'll give both those things a try.

[jprzybyla]

Hello Janis, I am not sure what to do on the second image but the first I took the liberty to do a quick edit. I opened the image in Adobe Lightroom 4, under the General Presets I added Medium Contrast and the preset for Punch which increases the Clarity to +30 and the Vibrance to +25. Then I opened the image in Photoshop Elements 10 and using the Quick Selection Tool I made a selection of the petals of your flower in the area of the green stem. Then by right clicking the selection I selected the inverse which made everything else other than the selected flower the selection. With the color picker eyedrop I set the teal color of your background. With the brush tool I painted over the stem with the selected color. I think it improves the flatness of the image you commented on. I trust you do not mind me editing your image as an example.

[purplehaze]

I trust you do not mind me editing your image as an example

I don't mind in the least, Joe. That's quite lovely; thanks! I will try to follow your recipe using the bakeware at my disposal (Aperture 3 and the Nik Collection). Just as soon as I get some other domestic chores done!

[Letrow]

myosotis or forget-me-not

I keep coming back to this little flower, as long as they are here. The colours are so great and deep, with the blue offset by white or yellow.

I am off to Sussex for a few days, starting tomorrow. Curious to see what the weather is like over there.

[rtbaum]

I love the texture on those petals!

[Vrgl]

Just received my new macro lens (birthday present from by brother)- so here's one of my first shots-gonna love this lens


_DSC0491 by kutsies pics, on Flickr

[minagashi]

hi, im new in here.. and here is my flower macros that i shot with my compact camera, Olympus T-100. any advice?