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.
I kept a bit of a check this time. Increased saturation, warmed with FM warm/cool action, Simplified a little with buzz, Dup layer and applied blur, combined layers, flattened, dropped gamma with curves.
But it was the original scene that mattered of course. These crocuses were real gems in a brief flicker of sunlight.
Next few posts..lots of flowers
Some of these are from around the city, and some are from the Phila. Flower Show.
Brian/MainFragger http://mainfragger.smugmug.com Warning: The Shock Therapy 2.0 galleries have adult material in them. DO NOT view at work, in front of a minor, or if you are easily offended.
MainFragger's flower shots
This is a hair overexposed, but I found the little hairs on the flower came out better that way.
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MainFragger's flower shots
This is from Neshaminy State Park. I find it strange because there are about four of these flowers at a crosswalk in the park, and nowhere else that I saw.
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MainFragger's flower shots
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More of MainFragger's flower shots
Arrangement from the Phila. Flower Show
Brian/MainFragger http://mainfragger.smugmug.com Warning: The Shock Therapy 2.0 galleries have adult material in them. DO NOT view at work, in front of a minor, or if you are easily offended.
Still more MainFragger flower shots
I've got a couple more..
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This is just one of the flowers in our neighbours garden. (wishing it was our garden ;-)
Don't know if you watch Babylon 5, but this almost reminds me of the Vorlon Spacecrafts.. Similar design, just needs a greenish alien skin that shape shifts its patterns a little. Oh yeah, and a Planet Killer beam on the front.
OK, I will join in...........flowers
I am beginning to feel like my tag should be "the copy cat". I am just going from thread to thread adding my photos, or some of them. I have a gallery called "Flowers", and before this spring I had maybe taken ten flower shots, max. But I wanted to show some of my friends what spring is like in the Charleston area, it is gorgeous here, then, and I certainly did not even approach getting most of it.
Here is a shot from my "collection".
I would do that better in ps now, just to tweak the intensity of the colors and sky, but this is the idea. A typical, for some, island home on the way to church. I took photos of all the flowers up close, then stood back and took the wider shot of the place from whence the other pictures came.
Then closer to home, a budding tree, this is my absolute favorite, love this picture..........
And, folks, that is all around in the Charleston area in the spring,
Alright, I'm gonna just do the following as attachments.. guess I should eventually learn how to use the smugmug deal, yeah? (Post move, I've just got an awful lot on my plate as of late.) First shot, macro of some kind of flower my mother planted in her garden. It was my very first attempt at a macro shot of any sort.
This next shot is of some kind of bud "thing" that's come up on our pond reeds. I have no idea whether or not it's an actual flower, but it does appear to be a reproductive organ of a plant, so I'm sort of expanding my own interpretation of this thread. Going from "Flowers" to "Sexual Reproductive Organs of Plants". Hope all y'all don't mind!
We also have some water lilies, or lotus. It seems almost impossible to take shots withOUT the girls getting in the picture. This is one of my favorites, not just because of the lotus, but because I caught one of them flying off.
Umm, I havent read all of this thread (less than half of just this page), but I sure hope that you know that those bees are all male, right seamaiden?...
The one female stays at home, fat and lazy, making everyone work for her, and she probably complains anyway! Oh, that was such a cheap shot! *holds wrists up* Take me away! *seethes evilness*
I told you Ive become evil, seamaiden! You didnt believe me! You who so resembles Dian Keaton (also evil)!!!
I have some neat flower pics I took while in Italy... The macro setting on my f828 is incredible!!! Even with the f-stop at like 2.3 or something, the zoom set on 28mm, and the macro setting on, I can get within one inch--one inch!!!--of whatever I want to shoot! Ive never been able to get that close with my old film SLR!!! Sweetness!
Maybe Ill post some later if Im not banned for this post!
Yay to you all!
I have been reading Rutt's description of LAB steeping for increased color saturation and LAB sharpening to avoid the halos of sharpening in RGB and have to give it a try. I have been shooting flowers in my back yard again and this is what I came up with......My wife grows lots and lots of day lilies
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And speaking of eyeball shocks, these crocuses really made me jump when I first saw them.
Tony Game.
http://www.candlet.plus.com/
That's a very cool look. What steps did you take to get it, or is that a secret?
But it was the original scene that mattered of course. These crocuses were real gems in a brief flicker of sunlight.
Tony Game.
http://www.candlet.plus.com/
Some of these are from around the city, and some are from the Phila. Flower Show.
Brian/MainFragger
http://mainfragger.smugmug.com Warning: The Shock Therapy 2.0 galleries have adult material in them. DO NOT view at work, in front of a minor, or if you are easily offended.
This isn't really a flower, but I like the shot, so close enough for me.
This is a hair overexposed, but I found the little hairs on the flower came out better that way.
Brian/MainFragger
http://mainfragger.smugmug.com Warning: The Shock Therapy 2.0 galleries have adult material in them. DO NOT view at work, in front of a minor, or if you are easily offended.
This is from Neshaminy State Park. I find it strange because there are about four of these flowers at a crosswalk in the park, and nowhere else that I saw.
Brian/MainFragger
http://mainfragger.smugmug.com Warning: The Shock Therapy 2.0 galleries have adult material in them. DO NOT view at work, in front of a minor, or if you are easily offended.
Brian/MainFragger
http://mainfragger.smugmug.com Warning: The Shock Therapy 2.0 galleries have adult material in them. DO NOT view at work, in front of a minor, or if you are easily offended.
Arrangement from the Phila. Flower Show
Brian/MainFragger
http://mainfragger.smugmug.com Warning: The Shock Therapy 2.0 galleries have adult material in them. DO NOT view at work, in front of a minor, or if you are easily offended.
I've got a couple more..
Brian/MainFragger
http://mainfragger.smugmug.com Warning: The Shock Therapy 2.0 galleries have adult material in them. DO NOT view at work, in front of a minor, or if you are easily offended.
gubbs.smugmug.com
This is just one of the flowers in our neighbours garden. (wishing it was our garden ;-)
http://lonepine.shutterbugstorefront.com
MainFragger
gubbs.smugmug.com
gubbs.smugmug.com
I am beginning to feel like my tag should be "the copy cat". I am just going from thread to thread adding my photos, or some of them. I have a gallery called "Flowers", and before this spring I had maybe taken ten flower shots, max. But I wanted to show some of my friends what spring is like in the Charleston area, it is gorgeous here, then, and I certainly did not even approach getting most of it.
Here is a shot from my "collection".
I would do that better in ps now, just to tweak the intensity of the colors and sky, but this is the idea. A typical, for some, island home on the way to church. I took photos of all the flowers up close, then stood back and took the wider shot of the place from whence the other pictures came.
Then closer to home, a budding tree, this is my absolute favorite, love this picture..........
And, folks, that is all around in the Charleston area in the spring,
ginger (me, too, I mean "copy cat")
Are No Match For
Age and Treachery
Are No Match For
Age and Treachery
Are No Match For
Age and Treachery
and a lily is always good too
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The one female stays at home, fat and lazy, making everyone work for her, and she probably complains anyway!
I told you Ive become evil, seamaiden! You didnt believe me! You who so resembles Dian Keaton (also evil)!!!
I have some neat flower pics I took while in Italy... The macro setting on my f828 is incredible!!! Even with the f-stop at like 2.3 or something, the zoom set on 28mm, and the macro setting on, I can get within one inch--one inch!!!--of whatever I want to shoot! Ive never been able to get that close with my old film SLR!!! Sweetness!
Maybe Ill post some later if Im not banned for this post!
Yay to you all!
See - you shouldn't encourage me
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