Autumn at dacha

[Yuri Pautov]

Priviet, dear friends!
As you might know, we have Dacha - small out-of-town house with a garden - lovely place where my wife grows flowers...
some photos from there:
1
http://pautov.viplast.ru/images/gallery/3029.jpg
Aperture priority to get this DOF (2.2 in macro)
My Sony F707 gives hypertrophied red - so I reduced Red a bit, made copy of layer in PS, used OptikVervelabs filters (b&w result) and played with opacity...
2
http://pautov.viplast.ru/images/gallery/3030.jpg
Like how this flower of dog-rose becomes a berry (hips).
Aperture priority again. Evening red-gold sun...
3
http://pautov.viplast.ru/images/gallery/3031.jpg
Hips...
4
http://pautov.viplast.ru/images/gallery/3032.jpg
These flowers look like a pie!
5
http://pautov.viplast.ru/images/gallery/3033.jpg
To emphasize sun light, I use Harry's method (Harry Behret) in PS - copy layer, Multiply blending mode Blur-> Gaussian blur (wyn - what you need), opacity - wyn.
6
http://pautov.viplast.ru/images/gallery/3034.jpg
They remind me of my childhood...
7
http://pautov.viplast.ru/images/gallery/3035.jpg
Love them very much... Tried to find the best composition....
8
http://pautov.viplast.ru/images/gallery/3036.jpg
This year my wife Galina grow decorative sunflowers...
I 'saw' this composition, made some movements on a table... Thats the result...

Hope you like them...
Yuri

[DRT-Maverick]

Your photography and composition is stunning Yuri. And I'm glad to see how beautiful the flowers grew, your wife is a wonderful gardener!

[bfjr]

Nice set Yuri :thumb
#4 the one I like best :D

[Harryb]

Hey Yuri,

Another set of outstanding pictures. :clap

[Yuri Pautov]

Thanks to all of you for your comments and critique!
Yuri