Flowers

[SavannahMan]

I've been told flowers are not good to learn with because they're already beautiful. I like them anyway. Any thoughts on these¿...

http://savannahman.smugmug.com/photos/2441548-M.jpg

http://savannahman.smugmug.com/photos/2456399-M.jpg

http://savannahman.smugmug.com/photos/3094534-M.jpg

http://savannahman.smugmug.com/photos/3094535-M.jpg

[fish]

Flowers are cool...

http://fish.smugmug.com/photos/3104520-L.jpg

[GREAPER]

Nice flower shots, havent seen any around here... until today

[lynnma]

Nice flower shots, havent seen any around here... until todayNice shot greaper... can almost smell them..:D

[rutt]

http://rutt.smugmug.com/photos/102726-M-1.jpg

http://rutt.smugmug.com/photos/3111283-M.jpg

http://rutt.smugmug.com/photos/3111930-M.jpg

http://rutt.smugmug.com/photos/3112365-M.jpg

http://rutt.smugmug.com/photos/3112521-M.jpg


http://rutt.smugmug.com/photos/3112672-M.jpg

http://rutt.smugmug.com/photos/3113210-M.jpg

[wxwax]

Fishy, very nice piccie.

I'm thinking that this is the way to shoot a flower.

http://rutt.smugmug.com/photos/3112672-M.jpg

[Sandy]

Don't you just love spring. All of the flowers are beautiful. One of my favorite flowers is the Bird of Paradise.


http://images.snapfish.com/33%3A375%3B523232%7Ffp58%3Dot%3E232%3B%3D%3A37%3D5 6%3C%3DXROQDF%3E23234%3C23%3B%3C%3A4%3Aot1lsi


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[Seamaiden]

http://rutt.smugmug.com/photos/102726-M-1.jpg

http://rutt.smugmug.com/photos/3111283-M.jpg

http://rutt.smugmug.com/photos/3113210-M.jpg These two, BY FAR, are my fave's of rutt's, with the second being my favorite of them all. Mr. Savannah (Here he comes! Mi-ster Sa-va-ha-nah!), I most like your first shot. Dangermonkey. Oops.. I have impulse control issues.. sorry. dangermonkey. SORRY!

[gotta]

Many of my first photographs were flowers. I don't see anything wrong with learning on them. For one thing, the fact they are pretty will keep you interested long enough to get good with the camera.

Regards, Eric

[SavannahMan]

These two, BY FAR, are my fave's of rutt's, with the second being my favorite of them all. Mr. Savannah (Here he comes! Mi-ster Sa-va-ha-nah!), I most like your first shot. Dangermonkey. Oops.. I have impulse control issues.. sorry. dangermonkey. SORRY!
I have found very mild self induced electro-shock therapy to assist with my impulse control issues. I just stick a 9-volt on my eye for a minute. It helps.
It appears I need to put in about 50,000 more practice shots. My god people, where do you learn this stuff¿?¿? (you'd think people did this for a living or something...)

[rutt]

Many of my first photographs were flowers. I don't see anything wrong with learning on them. For one thing, the fact they are pretty will keep you interested long enough to get good with the camera.

Regards, Eric
Yes, many of my best flower pictures come from a period about 3 years ago when I was getting serious about digital photography. At that time I had an Olympus E10 and the macro attachment. I got really good results; the DOF of the smaller sensor really works for macro shots. Also, I fixated on flower shots. I'm still really interested in flower shots, but it takes a special situation to motivate me now, like a late October snow. But flower photography is a deep topic and cannot really be exhausted. Irving Penn (probably my second all time favorite, after Cartier-Bresson) published a ravising book of flowers in 1980:

http://rutt.smugmug.com/photos/3142262-M.jpg

This book is a real revalation for anyone who has ever spent time shooting flowers. I wish I could have found some online images. I don't want to violate Penn's copyrights, so I won't post scans from mine. Suffice to say you should buy this book if you can. It's out of print, but not rare; amazon has 12 listings for "new & used".

If you get bored taking photographs of flowers, you can always get into making radiographs of them. The work of Dr. Dain Tasker can really change the way you see flowers:

http://rutt.smugmug.com/photos/3142680-M.jpg

I did find some images of Tasker's online. Take a look. (http://rutt.smugmug.com/gallery/89788) There is at least one book of Tasker's work, but it is out of print and rarer than the Penn book. Amazon does list 2 under new&used. Search Amazon for "Dain Tasker".

Digging around in my own archives, I did find a few more worth posting from my golden flower period taken with that E10 (although they look pretty bland compared to Penn and Tasker):

http://rutt.smugmug.com/photos/3141757-M.jpg

http://rutt.smugmug.com/photos/3141803-M.jpg

http://rutt.smugmug.com/photos/3136208-M.jpg

Anyway, all this flower discussion has me looking forward to spring here in Newton, MA. It helped me figure out something. The E10 was very forgiving for this kind of photograph. Even with the macro lens, I could shoot handheld photographs and get acceptable depth of field. Now I have a 100mm macro lens for my 10D and the depth of field is very shallow. So I have to stop it way down to get the depth of field I want. But then I need a long exposure and a tripod. And the slightest wind makes it impossible to shoot. So maybe I have to rethink this approach. Might be an excuse for a Canon Pro1 or similar. (Wonder what used E10s are going for on ebay?)

[tmlphoto]

Great shots guys. Here one of mine from yesterday.

[wxwax]

And the slightest wind makes it impossible to shoot. So maybe I have to rethink this approach. Might be an excuse for a Canon Pro1 or similar. (Wonder what used E10s are going for on ebay?)


I'm sure you've seen the device that stretches like an arm from your tripod leg, to grip and hold steady a flower? I haven't the time to look for it now, saw it at an online store a few weeks ago.

[tmlphoto]

Here's one more.

ISO 200
F/4 1/10 sec hand held with IS lens
A little photoshop

[cletus]

Here's one more.

ISO 200
F/4 1/10 sec hand held with IS lens
A little photoshop
That's pretty sharp for hand held!

[cletus]

Lots of great shots by everyone!

I guess these would qualify as flower shots:

http://ab0wa.smugmug.com/photos/3146200-M.jpg

http://ab0wa.smugmug.com/photos/3146201-M.jpg

[rutt]

I'm sure you've seen the device that stretches like an arm from your tripod leg, to grip and hold steady a flower? I haven't the time to look for it now, saw it at an online store a few weeks ago.
Thanks, no I didn't know about these. They are cheap (<$50). But it's no substitute for being able to handold.

[mystic7]

This series of flower pictures is amazing. What beautiful photographs!

M7

[rutt]

This series of flower pictures is amazing. What beautiful photographs!

M7
Yep. Flowers and kittens. You pretty much can't lose with flowers or kittens.

[fish]

http://fish.smugmug.com/photos/2736426-M.jpg



http://fish.smugmug.com/photos/2723215-M.jpg

[Sandy]

I'm enjoying all the flower shots.

The Lily, taken with my 3100.

http://images.snapfish.com/33%3A3854%3B23232%7Ffp54%3Dot%3E232%3B%3D%3A37%3D5 6%3C%3DXROQDF%3E23234%3C29438%3C%3Bot1lsi

[wxwax]

Shows how erotic flowers can be.

[pathfinder]

Shows how erotic flowers can be.
Waxy - They can be erotic - even with a CoolPix 995 - to wit:

http://pathfinder.smugmug.com/photos/3161369-L.jpg

[Sandy]

Exceptional eroticism.

[Sam]

Here is one I took last weekend.

[Sam]

OK one more.

[wxwax]

Waxy - They can be erotic - even with a CoolPix 995 - to wit:



Just beautiful, 'finder. A really nice image. :thumb

[SavannahMan]

Some new ones....
http://savannahman.smugmug.com/photos/3195128-M-1.jpg

http://savannahman.smugmug.com/photos/3195129-M-1.jpg

http://savannahman.smugmug.com/photos/3195136-M.jpg

http://savannahman.smugmug.com/photos/3195131-M.jpg

http://savannahman.smugmug.com/photos/3195134-M.jpg

This is fun.

[Rolling Stone]

Took this while sitting in my Kayak near the shore of Sapphire Lake, NC

http://dirtdog.smugmug.com/photos/226919-L-1.jpg

[ian408]

I found these two roses at Shoreline Park. It's near where I live but the real reason I went was for the Rengstorff House. Lighting was bad so I wandered the small garden.

Look at the delicate petals of this white rose. So fragile.

http://ian408.smugmug.com/photos/3303450-M.jpg


These little guys were as fragrant a rose as I have smelled in a long time.

http://ian408.smugmug.com/photos/3303451-M.jpg


Ian

[Sandy]

The red and pink roses seem to be more fragrant. Nice photos.


QUOTE=ian408]I found these two roses at Shoreline Park. It's near where I live but the real reason I went was for the Rengstorff House. Lighting was bad so I wandered the small garden.

Look at the delicate petals of this white rose. So fragile.

http://ian408.smugmug.com/photos/3303450-M.jpg


These little guys were as fragrant a rose as I have smelled in a long time.

http://ian408.smugmug.com/photos/3303451-M.jpg


Ian[/QUOTE]

[Rolling Stone]

Was at the garden center yesterday and just took a few shots of their spring offerings.

http://dirtdog.smugmug.com/photos/3308546-O.jpg

http://dirtdog.smugmug.com/photos/3308548-O.jpg

http://dirtdog.smugmug.com/photos/3308549-O.jpg

http://dirtdog.smugmug.com/photos/3308550-O.jpg

http://dirtdog.smugmug.com/photos/3308552-O.jpg

[tgame]

And speaking of eyeball shocks, these crocuses really made me jump when I first saw them.

http://www.candlet.plus.com/temp/crocuses.jpg


Many of my first photographs were flowers. I don't see anything wrong with learning on them. For one thing, the fact they are pretty will keep you interested long enough to get good with the camera.

Regards, Eric

[cletus]

http://www.candlet.plus.com/temp/crocuses.jpg Great image :thumb

That's a very cool look. What steps did you take to get it, or is that a secret? :ear

[tgame]

I kept a bit of a check this time. Increased saturation, warmed with FM warm/cool action, Simplified a little with buzz, Dup layer and applied blur, combined layers, flattened, dropped gamma with curves.

But it was the original scene that mattered of course. These crocuses were real gems in a brief flicker of sunlight.


Great image :thumb

That's a very cool look. What steps did you take to get it, or is that a secret? :ear

[MainFragger]

Some of these are from around the city, and some are from the Phila. Flower Show.

Brian/MainFragger
http://mainfragger.smugmug.com Warning: The Shock Therapy 2.0 galleries have adult material in them. DO NOT view at work, in front of a minor, or if you are easily offended.

[MainFragger]

This isn't really a flower, but I like the shot, so close enough for me.

[MainFragger]

This is a hair overexposed, but I found the little hairs on the flower came out better that way.

Brian/MainFragger
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[MainFragger]

This is from Neshaminy State Park. I find it strange because there are about four of these flowers at a crosswalk in the park, and nowhere else that I saw.

Brian/MainFragger
http://mainfragger.smugmug.com (http://mainfragger.smugmug.com/) Warning: The Shock Therapy 2.0 galleries have adult material in them. DO NOT view at work, in front of a minor, or if you are easily offended.

[MainFragger]

Brian/MainFragger
http://mainfragger.smugmug.com (http://mainfragger.smugmug.com/) Warning: The Shock Therapy 2.0 galleries have adult material in them. DO NOT view at work, in front of a minor, or if you are easily offended.

[MainFragger]

Arrangement from the Phila. Flower Show

Brian/MainFragger
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[MainFragger]

I've got a couple more..

Brian/MainFragger
http://mainfragger.smugmug.com (http://mainfragger.smugmug.com/) Warning: The Shock Therapy 2.0 galleries have adult material in them. DO NOT view at work, in front of a minor, or if you are easily offended.

[gubbs]

http://Gubbs.smugmug.com/photos/5301044-M-1.jpg

[lynnma]

http://gubbs.smugmug.com/photos/5301044-M-1.jpgbeautiful flower shots all.. I specially like this one gubbs of your daisys..such a simple little flower:D

[spockling]

This is just one of the flowers in our neighbours garden. (wishing it was our garden ;-)
http://members.shaw.ca/betlin/Contests/Flower1.jpg

[MainFragger]

This is just one of the flowers in our neighbours garden. (wishing it was our garden ;-)
http://members.shaw.ca/betlin/Contests/Flower1.jpg


Don't know if you watch Babylon 5, but this almost reminds me of the Vorlon Spacecrafts.. Similar design, just needs a greenish alien skin that shape shifts its patterns a little. Oh yeah, and a Planet Killer beam on the front.

MainFragger

[Wolf]

beautiful flower shots all.. I specially like this one gubbs of your daisys..such a simple little flower:D
I so agree with Lynn here, it is quite an inspiration to go out and photograph some flowers!

[gubbs]

one more
http://Gubbs.smugmug.com/photos/5301045-L.jpg

[gubbs]

I know its not a flower, this is some fennel that I have in my garden
http://Gubbs.smugmug.com/photos/5301047-L.jpg

[ginger_55]

I am beginning to feel like my tag should be "the copy cat". I am just going from thread to thread adding my photos, or some of them. I have a gallery called "Flowers", and before this spring I had maybe taken ten flower shots, max. But I wanted to show some of my friends what spring is like in the Charleston area, it is gorgeous here, then, and I certainly did not even approach getting most of it.
Here is a shot from my "collection".

http://gingerSnap.smugmug.com/photos/3308222-M.jpg

I would do that better in ps now, just to tweak the intensity of the colors and sky, but this is the idea. A typical, for some, island home on the way to church. I took photos of all the flowers up close, then stood back and took the wider shot of the place from whence the other pictures came.

http://gingerSnap.smugmug.com/photos/3308215-M-3.jpg

http://gingerSnap.smugmug.com/photos/3308211-M.jpg

Then closer to home, a budding tree, this is my absolute favorite, love this picture..........

http://gingerSnap.smugmug.com/photos/3295043-M.jpg

And, folks, that is all around in the Charleston area in the spring,

ginger (me, too, I mean "copy cat")

[Seamaiden]

Alright, I'm gonna just do the following as attachments.. guess I should eventually learn how to use the smugmug deal, yeah? (Post move, I've just got an awful lot on my plate as of late.) First shot, macro of some kind of flower my mother planted in her garden. It was my very first attempt at a macro shot of any sort.

[Seamaiden]

This next shot is of some kind of bud "thing" that's come up on our pond reeds. I have no idea whether or not it's an actual flower, but it does appear to be a reproductive organ of a plant, so I'm sort of expanding my own interpretation of this thread. Going from "Flowers" to "Sexual Reproductive Organs of Plants". Hope all y'all don't mind!

[Seamaiden]

We also have some water lilies, or lotus. It seems almost impossible to take shots withOUT the girls getting in the picture. This is one of my favorites, not just because of the lotus, but because I caught one of them flying off.

[pathfinder]

This flower thread has been quiet for a while, so I thought I would revive it with a few images from today......

http://pathfinder.smugmug.com/photos/5698831-L.jpg

and a lily is always good too

http://pathfinder.smugmug.com/photos/5698832-L.jpg

[wxwax]

:bow Wow! I'm glad you did. Stunning color on both - very nice shots, man.

[DewrGleision]

Umm, I havent read all of this thread (less than half of just this page), but I sure hope that you know that those bees are all male, right seamaiden?...
The one female stays at home, fat and lazy, making everyone work for her, and she probably complains anyway!:rofl Oh, that was such a cheap shot! :D *holds wrists up* Take me away! *seethes evilness*
I told you Ive become evil, seamaiden! You didnt believe me! You who so resembles Dian Keaton (also evil)!!!

I have some neat flower pics I took while in Italy... The macro setting on my f828 is incredible!!! Even with the f-stop at like 2.3 or something, the zoom set on 28mm, and the macro setting on, I can get within one inch--one inch!!!--of whatever I want to shoot! Ive never been able to get that close with my old film SLR!!! Sweetness!
Maybe Ill post some later if Im not banned for this post! :D
Yay to you all!

[pathfinder]

:bow Wow! I'm glad you did. Stunning color on both - very nice shots, man.
Thanks Sid - Here are a couple more

http://pathfinder.smugmug.com/photos/5698834-L.jpg


http://pathfinder.smugmug.com/photos/5698833-L.jpg


See - you shouldn't encourage me http://www.dgrin.com/images/icons/Laughing.gif

[wxwax]

That dude looks just like Jiminy Cricket! :rofl

[pathfinder]

That dude looks just like Jiminy Cricket! :rofl
http://www.dgrin.com/images/icons/Laughing.gif Yup!!!http://www.dgrin.com/images/icons/lickout.gif

[pathfinder]

I have been reading Rutt's description of LAB steeping for increased color saturation and LAB sharpening to avoid the halos of sharpening in RGB and have to give it a try. I have been shooting flowers in my back yard again and this is what I came up with......My wife grows lots and lots of day lilies http://www.dgrin.com/images/icons/lickout.gif


http://pathfinder.smugmug.com/photos/5936893-L.jpg

[Mitchell]

My first post on this site. Just took some pics with my new D70.


mitch

[Mitchell]

Another one...

mitch

[DJ-S1]

This flower thread has been quiet for a while, so I thought I would revive it...
Glad you did, I hadn't seen this thread and there are some great shots in it.

I'll contribute this one I took last weekend.

http://daveorama.smugmug.com/photos/6215361-L.jpg

[pathfinder]

You can't have flowers without butterflies.....

http://pathfinder.smugmug.com/photos/6282606-L.jpg

http://pathfinder.smugmug.com/photos/6282602-L.jpg

[cmr164]

You can't have flowers without butterflies.....

http://pathfinder.smugmug.com/photos/6282606-S.jpg

http://pathfinder.smugmug.com/photos/6282602-S.jpg
:bow:clap:encore:drums:encore:clap:bow

[Sandy]

Georgeous butterfly photo. I haven't yet been able to capture one that beautiful. In fact the yellow and black butterflies around here won't sit still for a minute.


QUOTE=pathfinder]You can't have flowers without butterflies.....

http://pathfinder.smugmug.com/photos/6282606-L.jpg

http://pathfinder.smugmug.com/photos/6282602-L.jpg[/QUOTE]

[lynnma]

Another one...

mitchWelcome to the forum Mitch.. looking forward to seeing more of your shots!
Lynn:D

[snapapple]

You can't have flowers without butterflies.....

http://pathfinder.smugmug.com/photos/6282606-S.jpg

http://pathfinder.smugmug.com/photos/6282602-S.jpg

Pathfinder,
Please tell me what kind of lens you are using. I can't get close enough to birds or butterflies to get pictures. I'm thinking about a digital SLR, maybe a Rebel. I have a Canon AE-1 and a good zoom lens for it. It's a Tamron 35-135 TeleMacroZoom. I'm wondering if that lens will fit on a Rebel. I paid $350 for it so it would be nice to be able to use it. Don't know if it's powerful enough to get a butterfly before he flies away. What do you think?

[snapapple]

Blue Hybiscus

http://snapapple.smugmug.com/photos/2548534-L.jpg

[ginger_55]

I don't think this is macro, but I love these flowers. I took them on an excursion to do the quality of light thing. I love sunflowers

http://gingerSnap.smugmug.com/photos/5763850-L.jpg

photography by ginger

[wxwax]

http://pathfinder.smugmug.com/photos/6282602-S.jpg

Truly beautiful, Pathfinder. :bow

[pathfinder]

Pathfinder,
Please tell me what kind of lens you are using. I can't get close enough to birds or butterflies to get pictures. I'm thinking about a digital SLR, maybe a Rebel. I have a Canon AE-1 and a good zoom lens for it. It's a Tamron 35-135 TeleMacroZoom. I'm wondering if that lens will fit on a Rebel. I paid $350 for it so it would be nice to be able to use it. Don't know if it's powerful enough to get a butterfly before he flies away. What do you think?These were shot with a Tamron 180 macro on a Canon DSLR. The 180 Tamron will fit on a Digital Rebel just fine. A Tamron or Canon 100 macro would work too, but this particular butterfly was just a little "flighty" and I was glad to have the relief of the 180mm. It sounds like your Tamron 35-135 TeleMacroZoom might work fine on a Digital Rebel too. Good pictures of birds may require more than 180 mm - birds are much more challenging than butterflies. For good pictures of birds I think 400mm is the bare minumum http://www.dgrin.com/images/icons/sad.gif

I am glad you liked the pictures. I have been shooting butterflies because I am frustrated with my reflection shooting.http://www.dgrin.com/images/icons/Wicked.gif

[ginger_55]

These were shot with a Tamron 180 macro on a Canon DSLR. The 180 Tamron will fit on a Digital Rebel just fine. A Tamron or Canon 100 macro would work too, but this particular butterfly was just a little "flighty" and I was glad to have the relief of the 180mm. It sounds like your Tamron 35-135 TeleMacroZoom might work fine on a Digital Rebel too. Good pictures of birds may require more than 180 mm - birds are much more challenging than butterflies. For good pictures of birds I think 400mm is the bare minumum http://www.dgrin.com/images/icons/sad.gif

I am glad you liked the pictures. I have been shooting butterflies because I am frustrated with my relfection shooting.http://www.dgrin.com/images/icons/Wicked.gif

Do you have any reflections of flowers around your area, or do you know where you could get some?

Just a thought, those are beautiful butterfly photos. And the flowers, too.

I would say a 400 for birds, too, at a minimum. There was a small bird in the marsh during the rain. I took pictures of it, and it is still a small bird, smile.
I was shooting with my longest lens on the birds, and it is the 75-300 IS. There were egrets there too. I did get some pictures of them, but they are so barely acceptable that only someone like me would even call them acceptable. I have one good Osprey photo from the spring, and I have a hawk and a smaller bird that is pretty good, too. But considering the small bird experience...................if you are going to get a lens, you might as well get one you are going to be happy with. I don't shoot birds, particularly, unless they fall into my lap, so the 300 is long enough for me, but anyone who shoots birds on a regular basis would trade up very fast, IMO.

ginger

[ginger_55]

My 75-300 at 300, I am sure, I think.....

http://gingerSnap.smugmug.com/photos/6127848-M.jpg


And one of the egret shots. It is over sharpened, I am sure, but it was a toss whether to try for "sharp" or just go with a bit soft.....


http://gingerSnap.smugmug.com/photos/6189573-M.jpg

That is cropped a bit, too..... I am sure you can get the idea. A 300 doesn't compete with the longer lenses with birds. On the other hand, I don't use a tripod, etc. A longer lens would drive me nuts. I went out to get reflections of the marsh grass. I did not expect birds, or a rainbow. Just lucky that night. You might be able to see that it is raining in the top picture.

ginger (I just figured out why the pictures bother me, too, the birds are too small to be the true center of interest, yet if I pull back and give the marsh as the center, the birds are too small, if they are not already, smile.)

[pathfinder]

A 300 doesn't compete with the longer lenses with birds. On the other hand, I don't use a tripod, etc. A longer lens would drive me nuts. I went out to get reflections of the marsh grass. I did not expect birds, or a rainbow. Just lucky that night. You might be able to see that it is raining in the top picture.

ginger (I just figured out why the pictures bother me, too, the birds are too small to be the true center of interest, yet if I pull back and give the marsh as the center, the birds are too small, if they are not already, smile.)
Ginger - Nothing will teach you respect for how good Arthur Morris and other bird photographers are like trying to capture really good close ups of birds. ( http://www.birdsasart.com/ ) It take great patience and skill as well as a fortune in good glass. A good bird blind helps too and the patience to spend all day in it. Butterflies are much easier to capture. I will think about flower reflections over the next few days and see if I can come up with something.

[cmr164]

Figured, I'd add this one to the collection

http://www.iisc.com/ArtBeat2004Jul17/images/IH9T1724.jpg

[SeeMoon]

I've so many flowershots..i thought i'd share some;

http://see-moon.smugmug.com/photos/3021343-M.jpg


http://see-moon.smugmug.com/photos/3499781-M.jpg


http://see-moon.smugmug.com/photos/1841956-M.jpg

[wxwax]

I have been shooting butterflies because I am frustrated with my relfection shooting.http://www.dgrin.com/images/icons/Wicked.gif

Me too, man, me too.

[pathfinder]

Me too, man, me too. ROTFL http://www.dgrin.com/images/icons/Laughing.gifhttp://www.dgrin.com/images/icons/Laughing.gifhttp://www.dgrin.com/images/icons/Laughing.gifhttp://www.dgrin.com/images/icons/sad.gif

[pathfinder]

Ginger Butterflies are much easier to capture. I will think about flower reflections over the next few days and see if I can come up with something.
Sometimes moths are easier to find than butterflieshttp://www.dgrin.com/images/icons/lickout.gif, and I lost a quart of water out in the heat today getting flower reflections for Ginger, but here they are for what they are worth.http://www.dgrin.com/images/icons/Laughing.gif

http://pathfinder.smugmug.com/photos/6417939-M.jpg

and Ginger's reflection of a flower...

http://pathfinder.smugmug.com/photos/6417585-L.jpg

[MainFragger]

This is a bee and an interesting flower I shot at Benjamin Rush Park.

MainFragger

[pathfinder]

This is a bee and an interesting flower I shot at Benjamin Rush Park.

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Is that a Canadian Thistle maybe?

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Is that a Canadian Thistle maybe?
I saw one picture that was clear enough to tell that it was a close if not exact match. All the other pictures were either too far away, or to blurry, or too low res to tell.

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[snapapple]

I had tried this after doing the tree for the challenge. The flowers are reflected in a mirror. The flowers are not reflected in the drops as much as the tree was. I don't know why.

http://snapapple.smugmug.com/photos/6440366-L.jpg

[snapapple]

Here's a special flower. One of the artichokes in my vegetable garden has opened up into a thistle. The bees like it. :lust

http://snapapple.smugmug.com/photos/6397084-L.jpg

[snapapple]

Here's another one. I like the bee coming in for a landing.

http://snapapple.smugmug.com/photos/6441633-L.jpg

[ginger_55]

http://snapapple.smugmug.com/photos/6440366-S.jpgI had tried this after doing the tree for the challenge. The flowers are reflected in a mirror. The flowers are not reflected in the drops as much as the tree was. I don't know why.


The flowers are beautiful Snappy. Maybe they don't reflect enough, as they aren't as thick as the tree.

It is pretty, though. Smile.

me,
g:lust

[ginger_55]

Here's a special flower. One of the artichokes in my vegetable garden has opened up into a thistle. The bees like it. :lust

http://snapapple.smugmug.com/photos/6397084-S.jpg
I love to eat artichokes! Ever since I was a little kid in Michigan. My mother and I ate them together. She had special plates and all. I still love them, and so do my kids.

I thought they came from the supermarket, or the grocery store when I was much younger.

g

You do live in heaven, and you seem to know what to do with it. Make more of heaven with reflections. Little multiple heavens, smile.

[chuckh]

This afternoon:

[chuckh]

Another from today:

[gubbs]

http://Gubbs.smugmug.com/photos/6748011-L.jpg

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http://Gubbs.smugmug.com/photos/6748014-L.jpg

[wxwax]

Here's a special flower. One of the artichokes in my vegetable garden has opened up into a thistle. The bees like it. :lust

http://snapapple.smugmug.com/photos/6397084-L.jpg

:scratch I can't see your shots, Snappy, not even with a cut-and-paste. Is the gallery blocked? :scratch

[snapapple]

:scratch I can't see your shots, Snappy, not even with a cut-and-paste. Is the gallery blocked? :scratch

I checked the gallery, Sid. It's not blocked; the share button is on. Hope you can see it.

[snapapple]

These won't be ripe for a while yet, but I kind of like the hint of orange. They have a kind of "dusty" finish so there's no shine to them either. The effect is soft and subtle I think.

http://snapapple.smugmug.com/photos/6788243-M.jpg

[pathfinder]

I got a couple new shots



http://img27.exs.cx/img27/16/smallrose90-0.jpg

http://img27.exs.cx/img27/3536/smallthorn.jpgLovely pictures - macro is so much more fun than wide angle for mehttp://www.dgrin.com/images/icons/sad.gif

I found a few new images today also.


A Monarch butterfly I believe

http://pathfinder.smugmug.com/photos/7339898-M.jpg

This is a Tiger Swallowtail I think

http://pathfinder.smugmug.com/photos/7339901-M.jpg

And this is some form of Moth I think -

http://pathfinder.smugmug.com/photos/7357678-M.jpg

[nikon90]

Flower close ups are a favorite of mine. I just got a macro lens a couple months ago and I love it.

[pathfinder]

Flower close ups are a favorite of mine. I just got a macro lens a couple months ago and I love it.
Cool flower shot. :thumb

[StarDreamer]

Hello. I just joined the group tonight and wanted to add a couple of my flower shots. I love shooting them. :clap http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v247/MyHeroRS/Pinkishredishflowerfromgrannys.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v247/MyHeroRS/beepurpletreeflower2cropnamedesigncopy.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v247/MyHeroRS/YellowFlowerTacoBellDesignetc.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v247/MyHeroRS/PurpleRoseInFront10nameetccopy.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v247/MyHeroRS/PurpleRoseInFront8nameetccopy.jpg


http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/v247/MyHeroRS/OrangeFLowerGrannysnamedesign_copy.jpg

This is just a few. I spend a lot of time taking PICS of flowers because I don't get away from the house much...LOL!! Take Care!! :clap

[Doug matson]

Just got a new camera and this is my first post so forgive me if I screw it up!
I did, going to try again.

[RocketMan]

While most flower shots concentrate on their wonderful symmetry, sometimes the very lack of symmetry and even decay, as the flower passes it prime, can contain a certain beauty. This is one of my first attempts with my new Olympus C740 macro setting so lighting and such is probably not the best!

RM


http://roadrunes.com/images/P1010110.JPG

[RocketMan]

This was taken on recent trip to Canada with my sons to visit Niagara Falls where we visited the Butterfly Conservatory. since most butterflies are found in moist environs the conservatory was a semi-tropical environment.

RM
http://roadrunes.com/images/P1010103.JPG

[Buddy]

http://buddy.smugmug.com/photos/7926234-M.jpg


http://buddy.smugmug.com/photos/7926232-M.jpg

[KMCC]

I never met a flower that I wouldn't photograph. Unfortunately, I can only identify two types of flowers; roses and everything else.

This is one of the latter variety taken at the Atlanta Botanical Gardens last weekend.

http://www.pbase.com/image/33123146.jpg

[Thwack]

I've been struggling with getting a really crisp, detailed macro shot of a flower. They've been focused fine, but lacked detail.

I think I finally figured it out...if nothing else, this one at least has the really fine detail I've been searching for. Bring up its original size and you can see flecks of dust (or pollen maybe) and tiny hairlike fibers (on the leaf immediately below the bottom petal).

Heck, there's even a bug's butt peaking out from behind a petal (sort of like where's waldo).

Waiting slightly later in the day might have provided better lighting, but I knew I wouldn't have that chance today, so I grabbed it while I could.

Here's my latest attempt (click the pic to see its original size):

http://thwack.smugmug.com/photos/9279721-L.jpg (http://thwack.smugmug.com/photos/9279721-O.jpg)

[Head in the Clouds]

i'm learning too, and love taking shots of flowers/foliage etc. they seem to work out well every time ..... (sorry, I have to attach them individually) :cry

[Head in the Clouds]

Another ...

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last one ..... i:D

[GREAPER]

These won't be ripe for a while yet, but I kind of like the hint of orange. They have a kind of "dusty" finish so there's no shine to them either. The effect is soft and subtle I think.

http://snapapple.smugmug.com/photos/6788243-M.jpg


I like this one a lot snappy, great colors and textures. VERY nice

Whatever you did in post on the different layers left a slight halo around the fruit and a couple of the twigs, That could be touched up a hair, but I like it a lot.

[GREAPER]

I like those last 2 Kate, nice abstract look.

[judyfuess]

Wow.. I have been reading through this thread, everybodys shots have been amazing!!!!

I thought I would add some of my own... (These were taken from the Butchart Gardens in Victoria Canada)

http://judyfuess.smugmug.com/photos/7828667-S.jpg[/url]

http://judyfuess.smugmug.com/photos/7828666-S.jpg (http://judyfuess.smugmug.com/photos/7828667S.jpg)

http://judyfuess.smugmug.com/photos/7828657-S.jpg [url="http://judyfuess.smugmug.com/photos/7828657-S.jpg"]

http://judyfuess.smugmug.com/photos/7828656-S.jpg

[MainFragger]

Hello. I just joined the group tonight and wanted to add a couple of my flower shots. I love shooting them. :clap http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v247/MyHeroRS/Pinkishredishflowerfromgrannys.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v247/MyHeroRS/beepurpletreeflower2cropnamedesigncopy.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v247/MyHeroRS/YellowFlowerTacoBellDesignetc.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v247/MyHeroRS/PurpleRoseInFront10nameetccopy.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v247/MyHeroRS/PurpleRoseInFront8nameetccopy.jpg


http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/v247/MyHeroRS/OrangeFLowerGrannysnamedesign_copy.jpg

This is just a few. I spend a lot of time taking PICS of flowers because I don't get away from the house much...LOL!! Take Care!! :clap]

I was at the Morris Arboritum today, and saw a picture of your last flower. The info said that it was great for killing cancer cells...unfortunately, if you take enough of it, it is poisonous and will kill you, too. Ain't that ironic?

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I like this picture so much, but I wish it didn't have the CA.

[ian408]

Flowers from the Farmer's Market.


http://ian408.smugmug.com/photos/9939340-M.jpg

[hoopi]

I've taken flower pics a number of different ways, but the macro lense seems to produce the best results. The photos posted in this forum are pretty amazing, so I thought I would share a few of mine as well. Not pro status, but I like 'em. These are two different roses in the garden.

http://hoopi.smugmug.com/photos/7580037-M.jpg

http://hoopi.smugmug.com/photos/7481776-M.jpg

[MainFragger]

Multi-faceted flower..this flower actually looks like several flowers bundled together.

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Hope you like....(Sorry if my posts are repetive...someone decided you have to put SOMETHING in here beside an image and can't have duplicate post names...sigh...)

[MainFragger]

Tough..I got lots more...You're just gonna have to like them! :dunno

[MainFragger]

A lovely place....

[MainFragger]

And they do about eight changes of flowers/gardens a year.

[MainFragger]

Nah..I'm just kidding..but If I didn't have a life..the potential would be there to post just about that...

[MainFragger]

All over your screens! I've planted it, and you guys make it germinate. Do I have a green thumb, or what? :rofl

[MainFragger]

Because you've seen too much of their stuff here. Sorry! :cry

[Thwack]

The FTD delivery person brought some flowers over on Saturday for my wife...mumbled something about an anniversary of some sort. :)

It was a mixture of all sorts of flowers and one of them really caught my eye. I probably didn't do it any justice, but I had to try:

http://thwack.smugmug.com/photos/10340642-M.jpg (http://thwack.smugmug.com/photos/10340642-L.jpg)

Click the picture to see a larger version.

[Eric&Susan]

http://images.snapfish.com/33%3B%3B%3A7%3B923232%7Ffp58%3Dot%3E2338%3D6%3A%3B %3D377%3DXROQDF%3E232365%3A3345%3B9ot1lsi

This is a photo of an unidentified flower that I took at a Botanical garden in northern California.

[Eric&Susan]

http://images.snapfish.com/33%3B%3B%3A7%3B923232%7Ffp58%3Dot%3E2338%3D6%3A%3B %3D377%3DXROQDF%3E232365%3A3369%3C5ot1lsi


More form the same garden.