The time is right to photograph fresh spring flowers in their natural habitat. That includes tree blossoms and new flowers in botanical gardens such as Reader Rock Garden or the Silver Springs Botanical gardens.
Here is a video with 10 reminders on how to photograph them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9ZIBUEx8I4
Here is a video that is in the spirit of the last session “Extraordinary Ordinary”. It is about boring flower photography: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89PyttWaub0
Lovely sunlit flower patch against a dark shadowy background in the morning sun. Lucked into this scene with a bee just after take-off.
Here is a different version processed in Camera Raw, sliding the highlights and whites slider down for more definition and detail in the flower.
Different crop – maybe a slightly different story focusing more on the bee and the pollen cloud – used a sharpen filter
Love the pollen!
Me too!
Found this tulip with a curved petal and tried double exposure ISO 500 1/180 105mm f4
Beautiful shot Della. Love the multiple exposure effect. Definitely NOT boring!
The main benefit of early morning photography is wonderful lighting conditions. The colour contrast is also apparent in this image.
Beautiful lighting and composition
Another example of morning lighting on a peony with a dark background.
In Collingwood dog park, a few trees are in bloom. First is a Lilac.
Edited in Photoshop Express and added the vibrant filter to both photos.
This next one a Crabapple Tree.
I like the stamens with the purple red petals in the top section. I would have cropped the bottom flower away. (find it distracting)
This flower looks more interesting when it is not the freshest. I think it is called lion’s mane
ISO 400 56mm f9 1/500
Really interesting with all the “curls”.
mixed group of flowers
combined three images in one , not sure if it is successful
Calla lilies in the rain, which adds a nice sheen.
Some nice curves – one of my fave flowers!
Closely cropped is more dramatic and effective
(As discussed in last week’s video)
Wow that’s a gorgeous image, Brent.
Tulips at Silver Springs Gardens.
Shooting from below definitely helped!
…and the grey sky made a nice backdrop
Really like this perspective Brent.
i took a walk through Reader’s Rock Garden today after the rain and the garden is a cacophony of colour. Well worth a visit.
My iPhone 12 died without warning so I had to buy a 17. The camera automatically shifts to macro if you go really close to the subject. This is the inside of a partially opened frilly tulip after the rain stopped.
Wow – what a great image Frankie. I love the cascade of different size droplets. Really a great abstract!
Thanks! I’ve never had a macro lens for any of my cameras so this is a fun new thing for me!
I always like to have people in my photos, even better if it’s a funny situation. My husband is a very patient subject. Our next door neighbour’s huge lilac arch over the sidewalk got really droopy in the recent three-day rain. iPhone
Love it. The red jacket makes the image pop.
Thanks! You’re right, if it hadn’t been raining he’d have been wearing his beige jacket which wouldn’t have been as good.
I’m not feeling quite strong enough for the outing to Reader Rock Garden on Monday, but managed a couple of short outings to Silver Springs gardens this past week. Here’s a closeup of a Cornflower. ISO180, 120mm, f/4, 1/1000s.
Dwarf Orange. ISO100, 120mm, f/4, 1/1000s.
Double exposure and close crop of a Mountain Cornflower, side view.
Another double exposure, this time of multiple flowers on a Flox plant.
Cropped to focus in on the center of the plant.
Here’s a tighter crop in landscape.
Not sure which one I like better.
Wild rose bush at University of Calgary – iPhone.
Rogue branch of the same bush
With white balance adjusted
One of the few flowers I’ve seen in the mountains this year
From my neighbor’s garden
f6.3, 1/160, iso100
Lovely morning at Reader’s Rock. Thanks Henri.
I liked the simplicity of this single flower.
Great composition and colour contrast that makes the flower really stand out.
Another picture from Reader’s Rock.