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This will be done on metal, the client wants it in 20X30!
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I'm totally messing with you. Its a nice image.
however it seems I went on far too many times.
Now I need a seeing eye cat.
nice image! Background blur can really set off a flower shot. I'm kinda surprised at the amt of blur you got at f5.6 but I suppose if the flowers behind are far enuf behind, you'll get the blur.
I'll offer one critique: that blur in the upper right is pretty blown out and, to me, somewhat distracting. (full disclosure: I'm kind of red/green colorblind so my opinion here doesn't matter) But I'd try to knock it down a bit or even crop some of the far right side out. That said, it should look spectacular printed as is on metal.
Yep, it is a tad splashy up there in that corner. I have tried to crop and it will not work with that pic...As it is, I just accept it & try to do better future wise.
... You captured it!
Awesome shot.
Thanks for sharing.
Smile
Sox
N/T
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" - Michael McClure
Good shot. You have bragging rights with that one. I'm not a flower person so need to ask what that flower is.
who is in New Zealand ...Dalia is what she says. She is the one who brings all this beauty to the world, I just take pix of it. To walk among her flowers is to be in paradise...
Thanks. Wonder if those would grow in the wife's garden.
and get their input....meanwhile, check out some pix (not mine) of these Dahlias. I have some pix of other types that I will get around to...
So they tell me. It scares me off.
Sharpness can SOMETIMES be helped with various sharpening algorithms in photoshop. I like 'smart sharpen' while 'unsharp mask' is a holdover from darkroom days.
NOTHING can help not using a tripod and smaller aperture. Smaller aperture increases depth of field, BUT at the smallest values (highest numbers, like f22 and above), actually hurt ultimate sharpness and ability to resolve small detail.
When I had my DSLR, I'd set up at 1/250 shutter speed and at least f11 or f16. Then I'd stake out a place and adjust my strobes (Alien Bees, and PLURAL at that!) for about a 2:1 or 3:1 light ratio AND a total exposure that I'd already adjusted my camera to. Take a few test shots and check out shadows and depth of field, than WAIT.
There is NO substitute for good glass. Period.
One Major problem actually doing macro work is that OUTSIDE in the real world you have wind. Even the gentlest breeze which doesn't even bother the butterfly, looks like a hurricane when you are 4" away looking at about 1:2 or 1:3 It'll make you ill @stomach watching stuff pitch around.
Too much is never enough
there are spiders...hard not to flinch or just plain bolt!
You want a SPIDER? Imagine this thing at say……500lb and with an attitude!
Here 'ya go, if I can find it!
Too much is never enough
fds
I'm kidding. Stand down. As you were.
Nice ... uh .... Yeah, whatever.
I killed a Black Widow the size of a silver dollar and her nest full of gazzillions of little widows.
Living right outside our kitchen!
Have I mentioned scorpions?
105mm Nikon Macro
ISO 160
F5.6 @ 1/500th
Lotsa luck
Lotsa love for her flowers
Edits: 08/31/14
Great shot, and it MUST have been a fairly STILL day. I hate trying stuff like that when the WIND is blowing, which at that scale is only a slight breeze!
Too much is never enough
greenhouse!!
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several pix on metal. They will display them in their restaurant and any that sell they will get 30%. I am flattered that they chose my work (play).
If they are as beautiful as the this one, they'll be snapped up in no time flat.
sharp picture! Well done.
Neil
I was rather stunned when I got it up on the Mac. You can shoot a thousand pix and then ...BANG...suddenly all the magic is there and all the attempts and sweat and frustration goes poof and you then are faced with the question of when will it happen again.
Thank you.
You can snap a thousand pics to find that "one", then just delete the rest. And it didn't cost nutin'. Otherwise, think of all that film...
I guess you could argue that if you shoot enough, "even a blind squirrel can find an acorn now and then," and that it takes the skill out of the art. Old timers, unless they had unlimited resources ($$$) had to have a pretty good idea what they were doing before snapping the shutter. However, take enough pics and you're bound to learn something over time, so I guess it all evens out in the end.
Neil
Digital is a 2-edged sword. yes, it is easy to keep baning away like MOST persons. But who wants 600 bad pictures of a wedding?
The trick is STILL to know the good from the bad and maximize the good thru practice and ruthless self-editing.
I attended a wedding as a guest once. I took my camera with maybe a dozen frames on a roll of whatever print film was in there. (probably ISO 100 Fujicolor, a reasonable amateur film)
I took the shot the brides liked best. The photographer was a lady I'd crossed paths with years ago at a wedding out in Temecula and I wasnt' impressed THAN.
And yes, the photo in question is a 1000:1 shot. A 100% keeper that ANY serious photographer would be proud to call his own.
Too much is never enough
I got a 35MM Kodak Retina Reflex ...after awhile I discovered Nikons and patience. Digital is revolutionary and yet, I still suffer and work to get "the" shot. Only now the misses are free!
beautiful.
I won't even try to play catch-up this time.
all the best,
mrh
I cannot wait to see it on aluminum. It already looks metallic to me...
Mrs.R says it looks better than it does in her garden...
nt
all the best,
mrh
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