Epiphyllum Oxypetalum

[Sventekoz]

This is going to be a post about how dumb I am, in the hope that others will learn from my mistakes.

I've been waiting for AGES for this plant to flower. It only flowers for one night, and has a magnificent scent. Last night, I was lucky enough to have two blooms open. I had everything set up. Tripod. Light meter. Remote release. BUT - I forgot to check my last ISO setting. I had been mucking around with the ISO settings, just to compare what they did. I left it on ISO 3200. Sigh. Noise city!

I'll keep playing around with the images and see what I can salvage, but here are a couple of the better ones.

http://sventekoz.smugmug.com/photos/471781043_t5khz-L.jpg

http://sventekoz.smugmug.com/photos/471819739_TGBHL-L.jpg

[erisian pope]

So spectacular!!! I am quite envious - my Epi has yet to bloom.

[Skippy]

This is going to be a post about how dumb I am, in the hope that others will learn from my mistakes.

I've been waiting for AGES for this plant to flower. It only flowers for one night, and has a magnificent scent. Last night, I was lucky enough to have two blooms open. I had everything set up. Tripod. Light meter. Remote release. BUT - I forgot to check my last ISO setting. I had been mucking around with the ISO settings, just to compare what they did. I left it on ISO 3200. Sigh. Noise city!

I'll keep playing around with the images and see what I can salvage, but here are a couple of the better ones.



I'm sure everyone has made that same mistake at least once Sven.
That's quite a pretty flower, I like the way the outer petals splay around in a circle.

The inside section of the flower looks pretty interesting.

Is something eating the plant? the green area look like they are either being eaten or dying?

Thanks for sharing :thumb .... Skippy :D
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[Sventekoz]

Is something eating the plant? the green area look like they are either being eaten or dying?

No - I've rescued it from a very dodgy pot where it was being burned from the sun. It's responding very well to some TLC! :)

[Sventekoz]

Well, after much faffing around, this seems to be the best I can do. Unfortunately, my incompetence exceeds the ability of technology to resurrect a dud photo.

The great news is that there are two more buds forming! That will mean I'll have five flowers in a season, which is phenomenal. I'm usually only lucky enough to have one or two.

http://sventekoz.smugmug.com/photos/472878401_i2srt-L.jpg

http://sventekoz.smugmug.com/photos/472878725_23WEM-L.jpg

[Sventekoz]

Just a quick update to this thread - only because the plant flowered again last night and I wanted to capture some images with the new camera. Both were taken with my 50mm 1.4G lens on a D7000.

1/100s, f/10, ISO1600
http://sventekoz.smugmug.com/photos/1143305478_BkVRe-XL.jpg

1/15s, f9, ISO800
http://sventekoz.smugmug.com/photos/1143854026_BDUBS-XL.jpg

[NeilL]

Nicely captured. Wish I could smell them! I can understand your excitement!:clap

What lighting did you use?

Neil

[Sventekoz]

Thanks Neil. The lighting was probably overly simple - an SB-600 on-camera flash, with a focusable (is that a word) LED Lenser torch to throw some light into the interior of the flower.

[NeilL]

Thanks Neil. The lighting was probably overly simple - an SB-600 on-camera flash, with a focusable (is that a word) LED Lenser torch to throw some light into the interior of the flower.

Thanks. Interesting. Worked quite well, plenty of detail and shadows mild.

Neil