My 1st attempt at flowers...

[wen-tom]

let me know what you think...

but be nice

 

[DVC Jen]

beautiful. did you use a macro lens? i really want a dedicated macro - it is on my every growing list.

 

[wen-tom]

Hi Jen, thank you for the compliments

I used a Sigma 18:50 Macro that DH bought me for my birthday. having not chosen the lens myself I wanted to see what i could do with it

 

[Quicklabs]

Very, very nice. How did you light this? What kind of background did you use? It really sets off the subject beautifully.

 

[wen-tom]

It was actually very very simple...

I made a box from white card and then used a desk spotlight (one with a bendy neck) to angle the light around the flower until i got the bright look that i wanted

 

[JenLovesMickey]

Pretty! I think the top one is my favorite of the two. That's a pretty flower. Do you know what kind it is?

 

[wen-tom]

Pretty! I think the top one is my favorite of the two. That's a pretty flower. Do you know what kind it is?

I know that its a type of Dahlia but there are a lot of different ones. I'm afraid I have no idea which type this was but it is very pretty

 

[dr_zero]

Very nice! very professional looking! Keep up the good work!

A+

 

[DebºoºS]

Very nice! Great lighting

 

[orchjoe]

Cool!

 

[jann1033]

love how the pink is offset by the white

 

[ElizK]

I absolutely LOVE the 1st one. Just beautiful.

 

[Candlepin_Man]

Those look really really nice what are the specifics?

 

[JR6ooo4]

Oh sure, set them in a comfy studio for the shoot. What happened to breaking your back leaning over a flower garden and waiting for the wind to stop blowing them around? Hhehehehee

Nice job.

Mikeeee

 

[wen-tom]

Oh sure, set them in a comfy studio for the shoot. What happened to breaking your back leaning over a flower garden and waiting for the wind to stop blowing them around? Hhehehehee

Nice job.

Mikeeee

If its any better, I did have my dog trying to steal the flowers from their nice comfortable studio while i was trying to take the pictures. the shots I haven't posted have my Weimaraners head smack bang in the middle

Thank you all for the compliments. I was quite happy with my 1st attempt but I am going to keep practising

 

[JenLovesMickey]

Dahlia! That's it! It looked like the flowers I had planted in my flowerbed a couple years ago but I couldn't for the life of my remember the name! I know what you mean- the type I had planted was some kind of hybrid Dahlia or something. They were very pretty and very hardy.

 

[jann1033]

Oh sure, set them in a comfy studio for the shoot. What happened to breaking your back leaning over a flower garden and waiting for the wind to stop blowing them around? Hhehehehee

Nice job.

Mikeeee

you need a big old black plastic bucket( like the 5 gallon paint buckets from sherwin williams but black not white, they are usually a $ or so unless you know a friendly painter...husband is a painter but i had to buy mine since he couldn't remember to bring one home ), drill a hole in the side that will fit the screw on your tripod so it will hold the bucket steady), cut a slit in the top of the same side the hole is in at the top edge of the bucket so the flower will fit through and voila, no wind , nice background...i've had the bucket for about 3 months, still no hole in it or slit but someday(since now i will have a good 8 months till we have flowers again maybe by next summer) it would help to have an old crummy tripod to use for the bucket as well as your normal good tripod for the camera. this was online somewhere i forget where now but not to take credit for someone else's idea. no help for the breaking back part or trying to get that pesky bee or hummingbird to stay on the flower long enough to get a photo of it. i have dahlias in pots as well but since i basically didn't water them all summer they are more the "morticia adams" variety , maybe i should take some of those

 

[wen-tom]

Those look really really nice what are the specifics?

Hi, sorry, I missed this one earlier..

the first one is F2.8 1/60 at iso 200 (i think)

the second F2.8 1/50 at iso 400...

all according to the EXIF data from the images as i havent had chance to check back at the originals

 

[JR6ooo4]

you need a big old black plastic bucket( like the 5 gallon paint buckets from sherwin williams but black not white, they are usually a $ or so unless you know a friendly painter...husband is a painter but i had to buy mine since he couldn't remember to bring one home ), drill a hole in the side that will fit the screw on your tripod so it will hold the bucket steady), cut a slit in the top of the same side the hole is in at the top edge of the bucket so the flower will fit through and voila, no wind , nice background...i've had the bucket for about 3 months, still no hole in it or slit but someday(since now i will have a good 8 months till we have flowers again maybe by next summer) it would help to have an old crummy tripod to use for the bucket as well as your normal good tripod for the camera. this was online somewhere i forget where now but not to take credit for someone else's idea. no help for the breaking back part or trying to get that pesky bee or hummingbird to stay on the flower long enough to get a photo of it. i have dahlias in pots as well but since i basically didn't water them all summer they are more the "morticia adams" variety , maybe i should take some of those

maybe I will just take the bucket to sit on.... heheheheee

Mikeeee

 

[abbingtonmatt]

cool...