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Common Knapweed
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Common Knapweed

by Rick Turner

Gallery: FloraPosted September 29, 201258 views5 comments
Stages of life for this weed.

Sony a700
Zeiss 16-80 F3.5 zoom at 80mm

F11
1/250 sec
handheld

LR4
PS5

Comments

5 comments
Comment posted by Bill Fach on September 29, 2012 at 8:52 PM
Rick: I might be tempted to push the whole bunch up in the frame a bit and I'm not completely sold on the OOF FG bloom. I like the light and subject.>=))>
Registered on November 1, 2003, 1805 Posts, 26981 Comments
Comment posted by Bob&Charly Nelson on September 30, 2012 at 6:53 AM
I concur with Bills suggestion, and also agree with the OOF foreground bud. With a full showing of the subject it might not be so distracting.
Bob :wavey:
Registered on October 27, 2005, 289 Posts, 4202 Comments
Comment posted by Howard Cheek on October 3, 2012 at 5:32 PM
Nice job of showing the different stages of bloom Rick..
Nits noted, but I like where you're going here:wavey:
Registered on July 24, 2008, 1201 Posts, 10758 Comments
Comment posted by Mark Stahlke on October 4, 2012 at 11:05 PM
Flowers like this are a lot of fun to shoot, they remind me of sea anemones. The bright spot in the lower right corner and the single strand of spider web are a little distracting. I think they make the composition too heavy on the right.
Registered on November 1, 2003, 97 Posts, 782 Comments
Comment posted by Morris McClung on October 6, 2012 at 11:04 AM
I'll just ditto Bill on this one. I do like all of the stages you presented here.
Registered on May 7, 2007, 670 Posts, 19650 Comments