20D, 400/2.8 + 12mm extension, ISO100, 1/500 @ f4 (-1/3EV), Remote, MLU, Angle finder C, Gitzo 500 + BH1 (as low as possible, head tilted over), C1pro + CS2.
Hi,
After sheltering from the downpours for most of Saturday and with further unsettled weather forcast it was with a measure of trepidation that I set of for an appointment with these orchids early Sunday morning.
After a while selecting specimens teh quality of light that I had been hoping for started to make the occasional showing.
Perhaps not the best of the specimens, but I was taken nbe the arrangement of these three allowing me to get a shot that I had envisioned before I set of and allowing the great control of DoF afforded by a big wide lens.
Dave you just had me scurrying back to the original file.....
Definately Green Winged (The green veins are clear in the larger file), Although there are supposed to EPO's in this meadow there were none evident on this visit. This site has many different colour variations of the GWO from almost white to a very dark purple, orchid fans flock there just for the variations....
The only green winged I have seen were in a meadow reserve NW Oxford - they were tiny hardly sticking up above the grass - definately nose in the mud stuff! so sizewise to the adjacent grass these look right.
Early Purple spikes are much taller than these more akin to spotted common orchid spikes, the GWO I saw were much darker purple, so interesting in the colour variation on your site.
The composition is perfect and the use of the three flowers is well thought out, as is the lighting and the angle of photography.
I have only one very minor comment and that is I think it would be better with a bit more space above the flowers and maybe a fraction less space at the bottom, the flower heads are just a bit cramped for my taste. But this is a very minor niggle on an otherwise flawless image.
Nice image - I think I would tend to agree with Sean and would like to see a little more space above the image and a little less below. Certainly a nice composition though - I think the 2 OOF stems flanking the main flower works rather nicely.
Discussion
12 replies20D, 400/2.8 + 12mm extension, ISO100, 1/500 @ f4 (-1/3EV), Remote, MLU, Angle finder C, Gitzo 500 + BH1 (as low as possible, head tilted over), C1pro + CS2.
Hi,
After sheltering from the downpours for most of Saturday and with further unsettled weather forcast it was with a measure of trepidation that I set of for an appointment with these orchids early Sunday morning.
After a while selecting specimens teh quality of light that I had been hoping for started to make the occasional showing.
Perhaps not the best of the specimens, but I was taken nbe the arrangement of these three allowing me to get a shot that I had envisioned before I set of and allowing the great control of DoF afforded by a big wide lens.
All the best
Definately Green Winged (The green veins are clear in the larger file), Although there are supposed to EPO's in this meadow there were none evident on this visit. This site has many different colour variations of the GWO from almost white to a very dark purple, orchid fans flock there just for the variations....
All the best
Early Purple spikes are much taller than these more akin to spotted common orchid spikes, the GWO I saw were much darker purple, so interesting in the colour variation on your site.
Mike
Beautiful - love the composition!
David
Tim
a very nice picture. I did tweak the Blacks and the white in the Blackcocks.
John
Aberdeen.
Brilliant image
The composition is perfect and the use of the three flowers is well thought out, as is the lighting and the angle of photography.
I have only one very minor comment and that is I think it would be better with a bit more space above the flowers and maybe a fraction less space at the bottom, the flower heads are just a bit cramped for my taste. But this is a very minor niggle on an otherwise flawless image.
cheers
Sean
Great composition and excellent use of DOF.
Well Done
Regards
Rob
Graeme
dennis