Fresh Batteries

Gallery: FloraPosted August 30, 201173 views12 comments

I had several names picked out for this electrified "Neon looking" Dahlia, but settled on "FRESH BATTERIES" as the 4 "D" cells were just replaced!

This is another favorite from the dahlia shoot on sunday at a local dahlia farmers yard. Unlike my last posting this is not a stack shot but single exposure taken with a piece of black matboard held behind the bloom. Processed in LR2 and then a couple of NIK's Color Efex Pro 3.0 filters applied including, lighten/darken center, glamour glow and Sharpener Pro 3.0

Larger version available, thank you for stopping!

canon 7D
canon 100mm macro f2.8L IS USM Live view used for manual focus
F/11 -1 1/40 ISO 100
tripod, cable release, black matboard, CS4, LR2, NIK's filters

Comments

12 comments

Comment posted by Ramamohan Pai on August 30, 2011 at 7:48 PM

July 4th comes to mind, Craig. Superb "explosion" there. Lovely

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Comment posted by Bob Duff on August 30, 2011 at 8:17 PM

A purple meteor streaking across the night sky comes to mind. Excellent.

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Comment posted by Gary Yeoh on August 30, 2011 at 8:18 PM

Craig:
There is certainly a lot of energy in this image. The flower certainly pops from the bg. Much as I like the energy here, I am wondering whether cutting back on the glamour glow may reduce the starkness in the image.

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Comment posted by Morris McClung on August 30, 2011 at 8:50 PM

Wow! That is like a Pulsar. Every time I move my eye to another place on the flower it moves. Fireworks indeed. Maybe oohs and ahhhs would be appropriate.

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Comment posted by Craig Strand on August 30, 2011 at 9:31 PM

Thanks for all the "electrifying" comments.
Gary Y - Actually I didn't use glamour glow full on, I think it was only about 1/3 strength. The rest of what your seeing is coming from the electrically charged "Photo-photon's"

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Comment posted by Pat Sampson on August 30, 2011 at 10:25 PM

Spectacular is the first word that comes to mind Craig. "Fresh Batteries" certainly works as a title but this looks more like fireworks to me. You gotta know I love this.

pat

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Comment posted by Nathan Buck on August 31, 2011 at 12:28 AM

Very well done Craig. The back BG works really well, Great color to give you a great looking photo.

Nathan

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Comment posted by Carolyn Derstine on August 31, 2011 at 11:39 AM

Wow, stunningly beautiful photo, Craig!

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Comment posted by Mauro Pasquero on August 31, 2011 at 12:25 PM

Very impressive shot, Craig. It looks like a Firework !
Mauro

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Comment posted by S Govindarajan on August 31, 2011 at 4:19 PM

The burst of colors is just awesome, Craig. Well placed and composed. The background sets off the colors beautifully. Excellent post-processing.

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Comment posted by David W. Kelly on September 1, 2011 at 8:02 AM

Nice processing and image.

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Comment posted by Albert Darmo on September 2, 2011 at 10:45 PM

Hi Craig

This is so stunning, that i had to put my sunglasses on :biggrin An arsenal of fireworks

Albert Darmo

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