Spider Lily

Gallery: FloraPosted August 3, 2014110 views8 comments

Another view of the Spider Lily from the March trip with Mark Seaver in the Ocala National Forest, Florida. This is one shot and has a better environmental BG and focal plane IMO. Hand held from boat, cropped to 16 : 9 ration Pano with full frame side to side. I was set-up for birds when Mark spotted these and did not make a lens change.

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File Name Ramy_8445_CF45-1
Camera Model Canon EOS 7D
Shooting Date/Time 3/25/2014 12:49:23 PM
Author Michael Ramy
Copyright Notice Rock Art Ltd. All Rights Reserved.
Shooting Mode Program AE
Tv( Shutter Speed ) 1/80
Av( Aperture Value ) 18.0
Metering Mode Evaluative Metering
Exposure Compensation -1 1/3
ISO Speed 640
Lens EF70-200mm f/2.8L IS II USM +2.0x
Focal Length 260.0mm

Comments

8 comments

Comment posted by Sanjay Sundaram on August 3, 2014 at 9:36 PM

Excellent image Mike. The flowers are sharp and the background is informative but not intrusive. The pano crop also works well here. And all this without a tripod... wonderful!

Sanjay

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Comment posted by Ramamohan Pai on August 3, 2014 at 9:45 PM

Mike - Great take on the Spider Lily. Whites are just right for this Lily and I like the inclusion of the habitat.

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Comment posted by scott lanz on August 3, 2014 at 10:17 PM

Always great to see flowers in a natural habitat, especially unusual and striking ones like the spider lilies. Very nice, Mike.

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Comment posted by Mark Seaver on August 4, 2014 at 6:26 PM

Fine view of these flowers, way better than anything I got...guess I was in the wrong end of the boat.

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Comment posted by Ronald Davis on August 4, 2014 at 8:49 PM

The sharply focused flowers stand out beautifully against the natural background, and the flower whites are just right to my eye. I, too, like to see wild species in their natural setting. The cypress knee on the right is informative for the naturalist viewer. Ron

Registered on July 4, 2014, 38 Posts, 48 Comments

Comment posted by Giuseppe Guadagno on August 6, 2014 at 3:28 AM

Well Mike, for me this photo is splendid. An excellent work, beautiful whites and a very good light contrasts. Bravo!
Take care.

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Comment posted by Bill Fach on August 9, 2014 at 2:52 PM

Mike: I like this one a lot. Just enough of the environment to set the scene and a fine DOF choice. 2 thumbs up. >=))>

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Comment posted by Lucy Aron on October 12, 2014 at 12:00 AM

Works well. Only nit might be that the flowers are almost perfectly centered. An aesthetic choice but I'd love to see a slight asymmetry of background borders. Gorgeous flowers.

lucy

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