With spring weather and crocuses out on the south facing slopes, I thought it would be a great to photograph flowers. This can be wildflowers or a bouquet purchased at a flower shop. For inspiration I am including two videos by Dirk Ercken on flower photography. Have a look at his website https://www.dirkerckenimages.com/ . Here are the links to the two instruction videos: In Camera Flower Photography and Minimal Post Processing .
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in camera double exposure ISO 1000 f3.5 105mm 1/100 Lightroom preset glow
another in camera double exposure
ISO 1000 f3.5 1/125 105mm
remove tool used to remove a flower on the right side
In the spirit of the course material we reviewed during the Zoom session last Tuesday, I tried to find a suitable background for these freshly emerging crocuses. I chose an over exposed image looking towards and slightly below the sun to get a backlit “soft” look and feel. On reviewing the image in post processing I was not happy with the somewhat sharp background, so I decided to use gaussian blur on an overlay and then used a mask to separate the flowers from the background.
Used macro setting on my Olympus camera to get the soft edges of the crocus flowers in focus. Used gaussian blur to soften the background.
It was a bit difficult to find spring flowers this week so I need up using some indoor flowers overexposed against a window in my house.
1/1250s, f1.4, ISO 640
Edited in Lightroom. I used Photoshop to remove some remnants from the window frame in the back.
Spring flowers few and far between saw some crocus but could not get closer with the chair, did find a dandelion. also colourful rosehips.
the rosehips in Beddington off lead area.
Cannonball tree in Sri Lanka
Taken with my iphone
This is the inside of a fern. Not a flower but a plant and I liked the look of it.
Taken with my iphone.
Crocus flowers in the Sandy MacNabb area
Taken with phone camera
Another crocus flowers
I was told I was lucky to arrive in Morocco two weeks after the rains that broke a three-year drought. Spring flowers of all colours everywhere. The mimosa tree is native to Australia and cultivated in Morocco, where they use the flowers for essential oils and perfumes, as well as in traditional ceremonies. They also grow wild along the roadsides.
ISO 800, 177 mm, f/7.1, 1/400 s
Attempt at Double Exposure of some tea roses – Canon EOS 6D – ISO 400, 100mm, 1/50 sec @ f/2.8.
Actual Tea Roses without double exposure-1/125 sec @ f/3.5, 100mm, ISO 400.
Paris in the spring! Lots of blossoms and flowers opening up. Apparently it was a long, cold winter and so many Parisians live in small flats with no balconies they flock to the parks and the Seine to eat and drink (legally!) in the sunshine.
ISO 800, 37 mm, f/14, 1/500 s
Picture of rose taken in Japan, at f/6.7, 1/60 sec, ISO 100, 230mm
Cherry Blossoms in Japan. f/22, 1/8 sec, ISO 100, 18-55 mm lens
Not a particularly unique photo. But I want to give the little fellow a pat on the back. Every year, it is the first flower to pop up out of the ground or better said, gravel, and flower. It has been doing so for over a decade…don’t even know how it got there in the first place. F/4.5; 1/80 sec.; ISO 100
I had to hunt for it in the fields but found a flower not a prairie crocus. Might be one of those invasive species but don’t know. f/4.5; 1/400 sec. ISO4.5
My First Crocus Mar.26
Looking for a close-up showing “spring Fur,” delicate translucent petals and soft out of focus background. River Park
Samsung S23 f1.8 1/2000 iso 25
Spring Hydrangea close up, looking for high colour contrast
Samsung S23 f1.8 1/60sec iso 100
A second look at the Hydrangea
Samsung S23 f1.8 1/120sec iso 800