Helichrysum?

Gallery: FloraPosted July 16, 201255 views4 comments

My wife (who ought to know) says this is a Helichrysum.

Shot a few days ago at the National Botanic Garden, Wales.

I took three manually focused shots at f/2.8 then stacked them in Helicon. That gave me an in-focus flower and a nice blurry background, which I enhanced with the motion blur tool in CS6 Photoshop.

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Comment posted by Eirini Pajak on July 16, 2012 at 12:19 PM

I love the lighting on this! I also really like the diagonal flow of the background...neat image!

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Comment posted by Gary Yeoh on July 16, 2012 at 7:51 PM

Rob:
Like the effect you have created with the motion blur in the bg making the bloom looks like its speeding upwards diagonally. Good stack.

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Comment posted by Ramamohan Pai on July 16, 2012 at 9:55 PM

Rob - Love the background blur introduction - specially that its moving diagonally complementing the orientation of the flower.

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Comment posted by Mark Windom on July 17, 2012 at 10:54 AM

Great job on the stack and your choice of f2.8 looks to be just right. The motion blur effect adds a nice element.

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