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Fall Asters

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Posted by Tim Mulholland on September 25, 2009 at 10:06 AM
Fall Asters
The asters here have been SCREAMING to be photographed, so I got out yesterday and had a great time.

Pentax K20D w/ Pentax 67 135mm macro lens; ~f/8; ISO200; orton effect applied in PS...

Enjoy,

Tim!
Posted by Tim Mulholland on September 25, 2009 at 10:07 AM
filling out the honey-do list...
Posted by Philip Schwarz on September 26, 2009 at 11:08 AM
Couple of sweet shots. I particularly like the second one with the bee. Your Asters look a lot better than mine. I've tried to shoot them the last couple of weeks and they look so scruffy that I didn’t keep any of the shots. If you go out early in the morning you might find some bees that have spent the night on the flowers. Last year I got some great shots of several bees wrapped inside the Aster petals.
Posted by Kerry Leibowitz on September 26, 2009 at 10:40 PM
Very pretty, Tim. I like the comp of the first pic a bit more than the second (I'm a bit bugged--oh, what a bad pun :smile: --by the UR quartile of the second), but the bee is a really nice addition. I'm wondering about a slight crop off the left of the second image.
Posted by Brian Vance on September 27, 2009 at 7:40 PM
These are both really nice images. I like the first one as well, and would like to offer a possible slight crop from the top and the right. I like the orton application as well. In the second image, I'm a bit distracted by the ULC, not the URC that Kerry suggested.
Posted by Kerry Leibowitz on September 27, 2009 at 11:12 PM
Oops...I mistyped the the first time. It's the ULC that bugs me a tad (as Brian correctly note), not the URC (as I, originally, incorrectly noted :rolleyes: ).

Posted by Toni Lankerd on September 28, 2009 at 10:17 AM
I prefer the first one because of the Gaussian blur treatment and the composition. I managed to find some Asters at PJ Hoffmaster SP last week, but haven't gotten around to processing them yet.