These may be a mature subject but they are still fun to shoot!
Archive for the ‘Wildflowers’ Category
Spring Wildflower—Pink Dogwood
Ok, I know already! It’s not a wildflower. It’s a tree blossom. But close enough for this classification.
Spring Wildflowers—Bleeding Heart
Well this may not exactly be a wildflower. This the Asian variety that is found in many domestic spring gardens.
What makes this image for me the the backlighting. Backlighting has the potential to be the most dramatic of any direction of light. And with many flowers that are translucent backlighting will cause them to “glow”.
Wildflower—Wild Geranium
This image is a composite of two images employing focus stacking. One with the focus on the ends of the stamen and the other with the focus set on the plane of the flower’s petals. I chose not to include a third with the focus on the bud. This keeps the bud slightly out of focus.
To learn more about focus stacking see a old two part series I did on Digital Photography Cheats Physics (especially Part 2).
Wildflowers—Common Fleabane
Rather than zooming in on a single sharp blossom I included two out of focus blossoms. I liked the bottom left to top right flow the three flowers provided.
A moderate aperture, f/5 provided sufficient depth of field to insure the one blossom was sharp all the way across; while the other two were thrown out of focus.
I wish the one flower sticking out on the top left of the sharp blossom was not there. Perhaps I could have hidden it had I had moved just a tad to my right.
Wildflowers—Trout Lily
Here are a couple shots of trout lilies. The first one shows pretty much the whole plant.
Unfortunately these guys bloom with the flower facing almost straight down. So the trick to getting a good image of these guys is finding a specimen that manages to lift it’s “head” a bit.
The second shot is in a little tighter on the flower showing more detail in the stamen.
Spring Wildflower—Spring Beauty
Can’t have a spring wildflower series without at least one Spring Beauty. So here is one.
BTW, I’m the speaker at Delaware County Camera Club tonight. I’m doing a presentation titled, “Light on the Landscape.”
Wildflowers—Bloodroot
Three views
I decided to crop this to a panorama and then decided to add the unusual white vignette. What do you think about those choices?