Tremastelma palaestinum

Gallery: FloraPosted September 16, 201039 views7 comments

5/4/09 in Northern Greece
Canon 30D
28 to 300mm lens at 154
iso100
1/60/at f/14
aperture priority
partial metering (similar to spot metering but camera uses a larger circle in center of sensor)
probably used a tripod

The Tremastelma genus is in the Teasel family

Comments

7 comments

Comment posted by Buck Ward on September 16, 2010 at 8:44 PM

Wonderful colors! love the purple blossom against that great yellow and green background. Would have liked more definitive sharpness on the flower, at least on the nearest petals.

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Comment posted by Pat Sampson on September 16, 2010 at 9:09 PM

Beautiful colors Sandy. I would normally like the flower sharper as well but maybe because of the supporting bg here the softness in the bloom works for me or maybe it's just entirely subjective. In any event, I like this very much as posted, particularly the mood of it.

Pat

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Comment posted by Ramamohan Pai on September 16, 2010 at 9:13 PM

Don't recall seeing this flower in person. Looks nice to me - your background is perfect for this flower

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Comment posted by Albert Darmo on September 16, 2010 at 10:13 PM

Hi Sandy

I find the sharpness satisfactory for an outdoor shot @ 1/60 sec... The iso could be boosted to 200, to get more speed.. unless there's no wind at all...

overall. its a fine presentation, with lovely color. comp. and B.G.

:smile
Albert Darmo. Canada:

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Comment posted by Brigitte Lorenz on September 17, 2010 at 1:52 AM

very lovely, wonderful bg...

Brigitte

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Comment posted by Wayne Rhodus on September 18, 2010 at 9:47 AM

What a lovely color combo Sandy. You captured a wonderful background for this bloom. I like the soft overall presentation, this is very nice as shown.

Just an observation; I would have expected more dof/sharpness at f/14 and if you did shoot off a tripod that should have elminated camera shake. The softness doesn't appear to be wind related so I'm wondering if the point of focus was in front of the flower.

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Comment posted by Muhammad Zaid Wani on September 18, 2010 at 11:25 AM

SWEET shot, Sandy! The colors are awesome and the BG is just perfect.

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