Thank you, the reflections are fun and I bet you guys could do some really neat stuff with them . First two are in a martini glass the third is a punch bowl we scored second hand . The martini glass tends to funnel and bend light in crazy directions . I used no floats just placed the blooms on the water .
Here is a full shot of our dahlia bowl , think it would be neat to find something this size in the old white milk glass .
Very nice compositions, Geof. Good eye for texture! Do you have any noise reduction software or is it available on your camera download program? That would clean up that first one for you.
I have a medium crappy camera abut 12 years old or so, The only "software" I have to use is Preview on my MacBook Pro. I should check at school and see if there is a decent camera with a macro lens I can borrow to play with.
At the ADS National show photography division, in Snohomish several years ago, there were some pictures of raindrops with other flowers reflecting in them. I believe that not only do you have to have a good macro lens, but you have to have perfect focus and I believe that you absolutely have to use a tripod. Macro photography is a real art.
“Flowers are like friends; They bring color to your world.” – Unknown
mandolls wrote:Lovely - so tell me honestly - do you spritz them with water? or do you run out after the rain? The droplets add such a nice contrasting texture.
Thanks :)
I have never spritzed before, though I have considered it. If you go out really, really early in the morning...the dew is just on there. Or, after a rain shower. Plus, the light after rain is unreal.
I won the bid on a macro prime lens on Ebay. I will start auditioning bees, spiders, grasshoppers and other creepy crawlers for portraits starting in week or so. And maybe it will shoot good dahlia portraits too.
“Flowers are like friends; They bring color to your world.” – Unknown
So pretty!
