Wild Cactus

Gallery: FloraPosted April 11, 2017366 views3 comments

Tried something different with the crop. There was just too much gravelly-desert in the image with a rectangular crop.
To get rid of enough of it, I would have had to cut out nice parts of the flowering cactus too.

Anza-Borrego Desert, Southern California
2017:03:15 08:58:56
D800
70-180mm @ 70mm
1/160 sec, f/14
Mode: Av
Metering: Multi-segment
Exp comp: +1/3
ISO: 500
AF mode: AF-C
White balance: AUTO1
Flash: Off

Comments

3 comments

Comment posted by Philip Hodgkins on April 11, 2017 at 11:19 PM

I absolutely love the floral/cactus mix. Good colors and detail; good balance. I am neutral on the oval frame, but it is not a deal breaker. cool

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Comment posted by Ed Williams on April 13, 2017 at 12:24 PM

This is cool Sandy. Way to think outside the box on this. The floral mix is really nice and the colors are striking. That one unruly cactus on the top left is making me wish for a bit more space, but I love what you did with the framing.

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Comment posted by Bill Fach on April 16, 2017 at 10:03 PM

Sandy: Delightful and I like the oval crop. Looks like the corners covered by the oval are pretty uninteresting and about the only other way to minimize those corners would be a heavy vignette. Nicely done.>=))>

Registered on November 1, 2003, 1805 Posts, 26981 Comments