Morning Dew

Gallery: FloraPosted July 4, 201446 views8 comments

Prickly Pear Cactus Flower
Leica V-Lux 3 P&S
Program mode: F5.2, 1/1000, ISO-100, 108mm, 4.75 max. aperture
Taken handheld in a nature center garden. Capturing dew on a plant is always intriguing to me with the transparency it provides. The cactus flower itself is such a departure from the rest of the plant.

Comments

8 comments

Comment posted by Ramamohan Pai on July 4, 2014 at 1:22 PM

Maureen - Nicely done. Love the lighting that has highlighted all the dew. A bit more light for the stem below might have anchored the shot better.

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Comment posted by Bill Fach on July 4, 2014 at 1:25 PM

Maureen: Welcome to NPN in general and to the finest Flora gallery on the planet in particular. Ditto your comments on cactus flowers. This is a fine first post here. I'm assuming this is flashed and if so you did a nice job of not having the flash overpower the natural light. Great to have you aboard and looking forward to more.>=))>

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Comment posted by Mike Ramy on July 4, 2014 at 1:49 PM

Maureen,
Welcome to NPN, sweet 1st post with very nice detail and a great BG that really sets the subject off well.
I especially like the lighting from below on this one, it creates very interesting shadows and highlights the droplets beautifully. I do agree with Ram on the stem lighting.
Well seen, well presented, well done . . .

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Comment posted by Giuseppe Guadagno on July 4, 2014 at 3:35 PM

You played beautifully with the light. Excellent photo for me.
Take care.

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Comment posted by Philip Hodgkins on July 4, 2014 at 7:59 PM

Well done, except the stem could use more light. Welcome to Flora! I am looking forward to more of your images.

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Comment posted by Jim Hackley on July 5, 2014 at 7:13 PM

Nice close up with the dew drops especially for a cactus flower. I also like Ram idea of seeing the stem to anchor the image just a bit. Welcome to NPN.

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Comment posted by Ian Wolfenden on July 6, 2014 at 6:41 PM

Love the high contrast lighting, Maureen, along with the petal textures and the sharp droplets. I will echo comments about the stem lighting but otherwise I think this a fine image. Hope to see many more from you !!!

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Comment posted by Sanjay Sundaram on July 6, 2014 at 10:41 PM

Welcome to NPN Maureen! Great color and detail, especially hand-held. This is a lovely image. Looking forward to more.

Sanjay

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