Plants & Flowers.

[HaseebM]

Took this from our backyard, bit of processing. Post yours in this topic, could make for some great ideas.

[Shadowman]

Nicely captured.

[Geoff F]

OK, here are a couple of my recent flower 'real life' photos.



St. Johns Wort. Shot literally in the field, for identification purposes,

And an attempt at a group of orchids in a tricky spot, with far too much background, but no real alternatives.

[HaseebM]

Thanks John and Geoff. Nice captures, hope more post.

[TonyW]

Two photos of a native mock orange. These fruit are small, around 10mm long.

056A7120 by tonyw36, on Flickr




056A7113(2) by tonyw36, on Flickr

[rtbaum]

I'll share


Lupine with tiny ant, a wee bit of a busy background


Columbine

[chauncey]

If you want C&C...it would be better to post only one or two images at a time.

[rtbaum]

If you want C&C...it would be better to post only one or two images at a time.

I'm not certain any of the responders were actually looking for C&C, just sharing
Feel free to join the party

[travis4567]

Here's one from my garden last summer.

[Dude]

I took this two weeks ago
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[TonyW]

Blasted Cactus

I am taking up more than my share of space on this thread.

The prickly pear is a noxious week in Australia and in earlier years caused tremendous damage. The cactoblastis moth was introduced and proved successful in controlling the prickly pear. This is a before and after picture in one. the remnant structure of the cactus is interesting.

056A8177(2) by tonyw36, on Flickr

[bnnrcn]

Welcome Dude Could you upload the image again with bigger dimensions. It seems to be a nice image and it's a pity that we can't see it properly.

I took this two weeks ago
uploadfromtaptalk1404012690056.jpg

[Dude]

Sorry for the small image

[Geoff F]

Real life flower photography can be problematic with lighting and complicated backgrounds, as Randy mentioned.

I usually look around in front and behind my subject to remove anything obvious, but too often still miss something. And even then, getting the best angle still results in a far from ideal background.

Recently, I tried photographing some grasses for identification purposes; and got 90% failures!

Here are a couple of alternative but tricky flowers from the same day.

The small flowered Enchanters Nightshade. A delicate looking plant - until it gets in your garden!



And believe it or not, this one is actually an orchid. Twayblade.



The flowers are less than 10 mm long; and it was growing in deep shade with a fresh wind blowing. Flash just produced excessive hot spots so the only hope was a long exposure on a tripod, but even then wind rock blurred all the other shots! And this one survivor is still far from perfect.

[bnnrcn]

I like it very much

Sorry for the small image

[rtbaum]

Geoff- I have found that my camera bag makes a nice background



I also play with picking up various colors of fabric to cover distracting backgrounds. It will likely work with macro shots.

I also am getting into 17mm shots of flowers, figuring that I may as well include the background as a functional element of the image

[Dude]

Thank you Bnnrcn , I got a couple of good shots that day in the garden but this one was one of my favorites.

[HaseebM]

Excellent stuff! Travis, how did you get that blur effect? Photoshop or what? Thanks.

Dew drops on a plant leaf.

[Geoff F]

Randy, I do use printed backdrops when working indoors, but found them difficult to get looking natural in outdoor work; and it took a lot of messing around. I never had much success with using a camera bag either. But I use a much bigger backpack now so I will give it a try if I can get the distance right so nothing shows from the bag.

Tried shooting the last Flag Iris of the year today. In a pond and I tried to get a sunless angle to prevent the yellows from blowing. But it isn't quite what I wanted, although maybe another edit will work better. I've tried this scene several times without being really happy with the results.

[chauncey]

Getting a variety of them from a place like http://www.joann.com/fabric/ can produce a variety of choices.