Crocosmia 'Jackanapes'

Paul Iddon

In an ongoing effort to get to grips with macro photography (and I still maintain its amongst the steepest of learning curves for photographers of limited skill (ahem, me)) I look to flowers and insects.

This time, it's a flower.

Commonly known as "Montbretia" the 'crocosmia 'jackanapes' are growing on a county lane just around the corner from my house, though many gardens have them, mine doesn't.


I have not done anything with the colour or saturation on these two shots, only tweaked exposure, levels and sharpened the stamens.

C&C as always appreciated.








Paul.

Awais Yaqub

Beautiful photos i like 1st one most !

Skippy

Paul Iddon wrote:

In an ongoing effort to get to grips with macro photography (and I still maintain its amongst the steepest of learning curves for photographers of limited skill (ahem, me)) I look to flowers and insects.

This time, it's a flower.

Commonly known as "Montbretia" the 'crocosmia 'jackanapes' are growing on a county lane just around the corner from my house, though many gardens have them, mine doesn't.

I have not done anything with the colour or saturation on these two shots, only tweaked exposure, levels and sharpened the stamens.

C&C as always appreciated.

Paul.

Hi Paul, your right about the learning curve, Macro Photography is not as easy to do as many posts on this forum appear to make it seem

The shallow depth of field to work with can be quite challenging to work with at times.

You did very well at isolating just the centre of the flower in the first shot,
captured some lovely colour too.

Got a lovely blurred background for your second shot too

Have you seen Brian's post on stacking images ???

http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=61316

This is an excellent tutorial that is very easy to follow,
shows stage by stage how to do it, and yeilds awesome results

Thanks for sharing your love of Macro .......... Skippy
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ShepsMom

Skippy wrote:

Hi Paul, your right about the learning curve, Macro Photography is not as easy to do as many posts on this forum appear to make it seem

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I agree!! I talked myself into macro lens, bought it, didn't produced anything decent, had enough and want to sell it. Just not my thing.

Nice shots!