Purple Dream?

Gallery: FloraPosted April 4, 201272 views9 comments

Not sure what species this image is..Taken at Green Springs Garden in Alexandria ,VA. This is one of the first images I have felt comfortable posting with my 200mm macro... which I have been struggling with. But am starting to get the hang of!

Taken with D700 , 200mm 4.0 macro.
at 200mm 4.5, iso 200
bit of a breeze, on tripod.

Comments

9 comments

Comment posted by Barbara Graham on April 4, 2012 at 8:03 PM

Beautiful, Sally! Wonderful composition with the background flower repeating the foreground flower, and really great background blur and foreground sharpness. Great colors and light, too. I really like this a lot.

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Comment posted by Miro Susta on April 4, 2012 at 11:29 PM

Is it Common Pasque Flower/ Anyhow excellent photo.

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Comment posted by Brigitte Lorenz on April 5, 2012 at 1:48 AM

wonderful composition and great colors...very nice

Brigitte

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Comment posted by Patricia Brundage on April 5, 2012 at 5:47 AM

Very nice! Your composition with the repeating flowers, sharpness of the subject and nice clean background all work well to present the flower beautifully. Well done.

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Comment posted by Ramamohan Pai on April 5, 2012 at 11:38 AM

Pasque Flower for sure

- good details on the petals. If anything and if it did not hurt the background much, a bit more DOF for all the petals would have been nice too.

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Comment posted by Mark Seaver on April 5, 2012 at 10:07 PM

Beautiful flower and fine composition. That yellow on purple combo is really striking. My minor nit is that I'd like to see the anthers sharp, but then I'm generally a detail nut.

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Comment posted by Albert Darmo on April 5, 2012 at 10:56 PM

Hi Sally

I like this composition. and the delightful color and BG

Albert Darmo

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Comment posted by Larry Lynch on April 10, 2012 at 9:13 AM

What a fine image! Love the shades of color and comp. Beautifully presented.

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Comment posted by Sally Wood on April 10, 2012 at 5:50 PM

Thanks all for your feedback, you are all helping me grow and learn... I am finding flora photography very relaxing and rewarding........ most of the time anyway!

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