Flowers

SavannahManSavannahMan Registered Users Posts: 142 Major grins
edited October 27, 2004 in Wildlife
I've been told flowers are not good to learn with because they're already beautiful. I like them anyway. Any thoughts on these¿...

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  • fishfish Registered Users Posts: 2,950 Major grins
    edited March 27, 2004
    Flowers are cool...

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    "Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk." - Edward Weston
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  • GREAPERGREAPER Registered Users Posts: 3,113 Major grins
    edited March 27, 2004
    Nice flower shots, havent seen any around here... until today
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  • lynnmalynnma Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 5,208 Major grins
    edited March 27, 2004
    GREAPER wrote:
    Nice flower shots, havent seen any around here... until today
    Nice shot greaper... can almost smell them..:D
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  • ruttrutt Registered Users Posts: 6,511 Major grins
    edited March 27, 2004
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    If not now, when?
  • wxwaxwxwax Registered Users Posts: 15,471 Major grins
    edited March 28, 2004
    Fishy, very nice piccie.

    I'm thinking that this is the way to shoot a flower.

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    Sid.
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  • SandySandy Registered Users Posts: 762 Major grins
    edited March 28, 2004
    Don't you just love spring. All of the flowers are beautiful. One of my favorite flowers is the Bird of Paradise.


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  • SeamaidenSeamaiden Registered Users Posts: 339 Major grins
    edited March 28, 2004
    rutt wrote:
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    These two, BY FAR, are my fave's of rutt's, with the second being my favorite of them all. Mr. Savannah (Here he comes! Mi-ster Sa-va-ha-nah!), I most like your first shot. Dangermonkey. Oops.. I have impulse control issues.. sorry. dangermonkey. SORRY!
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  • gottagotta Registered Users Posts: 81 Big grins
    edited March 28, 2004
    Many of my first photographs were flowers. I don't see anything wrong with learning on them. For one thing, the fact they are pretty will keep you interested long enough to get good with the camera.

    Regards, Eric
  • SavannahManSavannahMan Registered Users Posts: 142 Major grins
    edited March 29, 2004
    Seamaiden wrote:
    These two, BY FAR, are my fave's of rutt's, with the second being my favorite of them all. Mr. Savannah (Here he comes! Mi-ster Sa-va-ha-nah!), I most like your first shot. Dangermonkey. Oops.. I have impulse control issues.. sorry. dangermonkey. SORRY!
    I have found very mild self induced electro-shock therapy to assist with my impulse control issues. I just stick a 9-volt on my eye for a minute. It helps.
    It appears I need to put in about 50,000 more practice shots. My god people, where do you learn this stuff¿?¿? (you'd think people did this for a living or something...)
  • ruttrutt Registered Users Posts: 6,511 Major grins
    edited March 29, 2004
    Not just for novices
    gotta wrote:
    Many of my first photographs were flowers. I don't see anything wrong with learning on them. For one thing, the fact they are pretty will keep you interested long enough to get good with the camera.

    Regards, Eric
    Yes, many of my best flower pictures come from a period about 3 years ago when I was getting serious about digital photography. At that time I had an Olympus E10 and the macro attachment. I got really good results; the DOF of the smaller sensor really works for macro shots. Also, I fixated on flower shots. I'm still really interested in flower shots, but it takes a special situation to motivate me now, like a late October snow. But flower photography is a deep topic and cannot really be exhausted. Irving Penn (probably my second all time favorite, after Cartier-Bresson) published a ravising book of flowers in 1980:

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    This book is a real revalation for anyone who has ever spent time shooting flowers. I wish I could have found some online images. I don't want to violate Penn's copyrights, so I won't post scans from mine. Suffice to say you should buy this book if you can. It's out of print, but not rare; amazon has 12 listings for "new & used".

    If you get bored taking photographs of flowers, you can always get into making radiographs of them. The work of Dr. Dain Tasker can really change the way you see flowers:

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    I did find some images of Tasker's online. Take a look. There is at least one book of Tasker's work, but it is out of print and rarer than the Penn book. Amazon does list 2 under new&used. Search Amazon for "Dain Tasker".

    Digging around in my own archives, I did find a few more worth posting from my golden flower period taken with that E10 (although they look pretty bland compared to Penn and Tasker):

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    Anyway, all this flower discussion has me looking forward to spring here in Newton, MA. It helped me figure out something. The E10 was very forgiving for this kind of photograph. Even with the macro lens, I could shoot handheld photographs and get acceptable depth of field. Now I have a 100mm macro lens for my 10D and the depth of field is very shallow. So I have to stop it way down to get the depth of field I want. But then I need a long exposure and a tripod. And the slightest wind makes it impossible to shoot. So maybe I have to rethink this approach. Might be an excuse for a Canon Pro1 or similar. (Wonder what used E10s are going for on ebay?)
    If not now, when?
  • tmlphototmlphoto Registered Users Posts: 1,444 Major grins
    edited March 29, 2004
    flowers
    Great shots guys. Here one of mine from yesterday.
    Thomas :D

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  • wxwaxwxwax Registered Users Posts: 15,471 Major grins
    edited March 29, 2004
    rutt wrote:
    And the slightest wind makes it impossible to shoot. So maybe I have to rethink this approach. Might be an excuse for a Canon Pro1 or similar. (Wonder what used E10s are going for on ebay?)


    I'm sure you've seen the device that stretches like an arm from your tripod leg, to grip and hold steady a flower? I haven't the time to look for it now, saw it at an online store a few weeks ago.
    Sid.
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  • tmlphototmlphoto Registered Users Posts: 1,444 Major grins
    edited March 29, 2004
    Flowers
    Here's one more.

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    A little photoshop
    Thomas :D

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  • cletuscletus Registered Users Posts: 1,930 Major grins
    edited March 29, 2004
    tmlphoto wrote:
    Here's one more.

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    A little photoshop
    That's pretty sharp for hand held!
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  • cletuscletus Registered Users Posts: 1,930 Major grins
    edited March 29, 2004
    Lots of great shots by everyone!

    I guess these would qualify as flower shots:

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  • ruttrutt Registered Users Posts: 6,511 Major grins
    edited March 29, 2004
    wxwax wrote:
    I'm sure you've seen the device that stretches like an arm from your tripod leg, to grip and hold steady a flower? I haven't the time to look for it now, saw it at an online store a few weeks ago.
    Thanks, no I didn't know about these. They are cheap (<$50). But it's no substitute for being able to handold.
    If not now, when?
  • mystic7mystic7 Registered Users Posts: 51 Big grins
    edited March 29, 2004
    This series of flower pictures is amazing. What beautiful photographs!

    M7
  • ruttrutt Registered Users Posts: 6,511 Major grins
    edited March 29, 2004
    mystic7 wrote:
    This series of flower pictures is amazing. What beautiful photographs!

    M7
    Yep. Flowers and kittens. You pretty much can't lose with flowers or kittens.
    If not now, when?
  • fishfish Registered Users Posts: 2,950 Major grins
    edited March 29, 2004
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    "Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk." - Edward Weston
    "The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."-Hunter S.Thompson
  • SandySandy Registered Users Posts: 762 Major grins
    edited March 29, 2004
    I'm enjoying all the flower shots.

    The Lily, taken with my 3100.

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  • wxwaxwxwax Registered Users Posts: 15,471 Major grins
    edited March 30, 2004
    Shows how erotic flowers can be.
    Sid.
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  • pathfinderpathfinder Super Moderators Posts: 14,708 moderator
    edited March 30, 2004
    wxwax wrote:
    Shows how erotic flowers can be.
    Waxy - They can be erotic - even with a CoolPix 995 - to wit:

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  • SandySandy Registered Users Posts: 762 Major grins
    edited March 30, 2004
    Exceptional eroticism.
  • SamSam Registered Users Posts: 7,419 Major grins
    edited March 30, 2004
    Here is one I took last weekend.
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  • SamSam Registered Users Posts: 7,419 Major grins
    edited March 30, 2004
    OK one more.
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  • wxwaxwxwax Registered Users Posts: 15,471 Major grins
    edited March 31, 2004
    pathfinder wrote:
    Waxy - They can be erotic - even with a CoolPix 995 - to wit:

    Just beautiful, 'finder. A really nice image. thumb.gif
    Sid.
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  • SavannahManSavannahMan Registered Users Posts: 142 Major grins
    edited April 1, 2004
    Some new ones....
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    This is fun.
  • Rolling StoneRolling Stone Registered Users Posts: 203 Major grins
    edited April 1, 2004
    Took this while sitting in my Kayak near the shore of Sapphire Lake, NC

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  • ian408ian408 Administrators Posts: 21,948 moderator
    edited April 6, 2004
    I found these two roses at Shoreline Park. It's near where I live but the real reason I went was for the Rengstorff House. Lighting was bad so I wandered the small garden.

    Look at the delicate petals of this white rose. So fragile.

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    These little guys were as fragrant a rose as I have smelled in a long time.

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    Ian
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  • SandySandy Registered Users Posts: 762 Major grins
    edited April 6, 2004
    The red and pink roses seem to be more fragrant. Nice photos.


    QUOTE=ian408]I found these two roses at Shoreline Park. It's near where I live but the real reason I went was for the Rengstorff House. Lighting was bad so I wandered the small garden.

    Look at the delicate petals of this white rose. So fragile.

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    These little guys were as fragrant a rose as I have smelled in a long time.

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    Ian[/QUOTE]
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