Gallery: FloraPosted March 4, 2014144 views9 comments
Hi all.
A couple more old photos to come. I liked the back lighting on this cosmo.
Any and all thoughts appreciated.
Nathan
Nikon D7000, Sigma 180 macro (I think - though it could have been my Nikkor 60mm, f4ish, ISO 200)
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Comment posted by Doug Roane on March 4, 2014 at 9:32 AM
Great image, Nathan. Well composed and focused - love how the white glows with the backlighting
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Comment posted by Michael Cothran on March 4, 2014 at 12:59 PM
Wow - you certainly nailed the main flower here. The whites and greens are amazing. About as good as it can get. The whites show such detail for being so clean and bright, while the green stem and extensions almost look 3D. Beautiful crafting. Oh, I'm sorry - is there anything else in the picture I should look at? I can't take my eyes off the cosmos!!
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Comment posted by Philip Hodgkins on March 4, 2014 at 2:06 PM
Nice light cool colors, good detail at the POF. A minor nit(?)—the purple flower petals in the LLC are slightly less OOF than the ones in the BG. Technically, they probably should be, but this is about narrow focus with everything else blurred. Artistically, I feel they should be as blurred as much as the other purple OOF objects. To be fair, this only caught my eye as I scrolled down to see what others had said.
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Comment posted by Lorna Taylor on March 4, 2014 at 4:06 PM
Just beautiful!
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Comment posted by Louis Pattis on March 4, 2014 at 5:38 PM
This recipe I have to have, you started with a beautiful ingredient, what ever you did in PP spiced this image really up. The colors are so natural and the flower dances in 3D.
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Comment posted by Bill Fach on March 9, 2014 at 7:08 PM
Nathan: Wonderful POV on this one. Keep 'em coming! >=))>
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Comment posted by Lucy VanSwearingen on March 20, 2014 at 12:44 AM
One word immediately comes to mind...ELEGENT
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Comment posted by Lucy VanSwearingen on March 20, 2014 at 12:49 AM
What techniue have you used in this and many of your other photos to blur and soften the image?
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Comment posted by Nathan Buck on March 21, 2014 at 2:06 AM
I sent this response to Lucy in an email, but I figured that I could post it here in case anyone else had similar questions:
You asked "What techniue have you used in this and many of your other photos to blur and soften the image?". I use a combination of a couple of techniques.
1. I shoot at fairly shallow apertures a lot of the time. I shoot at f4 (my lens has a max aperture of 3.5) and f5.6 a lot of the time.
2. The main technique that I use I call (and others call) cramming. Basically what I do there is shoot past or through other foliage or blooms and that causes them to blur or to cause some softness to the image.
I do very little in post processing. Once in a while I might soften an area with a large size clone brush, set at 50% opacity to just take the edge off - but that is done very rarely.
I love the 'cramming' style. I use it often. Almost any blooms can be used for cramming, but the ones that work best are those that have lots of blooms to give you blooms to shoot through.
I hope that helps. Feel free to ask any other questions that you might have.
Nathan
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9 commentsYou asked "What techniue have you used in this and many of your other photos to blur and soften the image?". I use a combination of a couple of techniques.
1. I shoot at fairly shallow apertures a lot of the time. I shoot at f4 (my lens has a max aperture of 3.5) and f5.6 a lot of the time.
2. The main technique that I use I call (and others call) cramming. Basically what I do there is shoot past or through other foliage or blooms and that causes them to blur or to cause some softness to the image.
I do very little in post processing. Once in a while I might soften an area with a large size clone brush, set at 50% opacity to just take the edge off - but that is done very rarely.
I love the 'cramming' style. I use it often. Almost any blooms can be used for cramming, but the ones that work best are those that have lots of blooms to give you blooms to shoot through.
I hope that helps. Feel free to ask any other questions that you might have.
Nathan