Macro flower photographs

Another Rose:

http://i51.tinypic.com/tah56d.jpg

Philip

Here is something slightly different. Banana flower.

http://i55.tinypic.com/25qq7ew.jpg

http://i55.tinypic.com/zunqrb.jpg

Wow, terrence, that really is different! Thank you for posting it! :D

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-0...52520small.jpg
Model Canon EOS 5D Mark II
ISO 100
Exposure 1/15 sec
Aperture 22.0
Focal Length 70mm

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Originally Posted by BJ Denning

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-0...52520small.jpg
Model Canon EOS 5D Mark II
ISO 100
Exposure 1/15 sec
Aperture 22.0
Focal Length 70mm

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Beautiful photo Bryan. The only thing I would comment on is the whiteness of the flower, the whites seem slightly overblown, so that the detail is lost slightly. Very nice contrast otherwise with all that nice darkness surrounding that spot of light

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6005/...30591deb_b.jpg

Aster (Asteraceae)

These photos taken with a D50 camera and Sigma 105 f2.8 macro lens.

Water drop on a Shell Ginger plant flower.

http://i53.tinypic.com/6qy61k.jpg

Lemon flower.

http://i52.tinypic.com/14j6c2h.jpg

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Originally Posted by BJ Denning

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-0...52520small.jpg
Model Canon EOS 5D Mark II
ISO 100
Exposure 1/15 sec
Aperture 22.0
Focal Length 70mm

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Nice one Bryan,

The only thing I wonder is whether to try having the bloom and leaf across the image at an angle, rather than so 'horizontal'.

Cheers,

https://www.cambridgeincolour.com/fo...3&d=1312369080

http://i55.tinypic.com/i60aad.jpg

Except I would have liked to maybe not have the lower bits so prominent - but live and learn!

https://www.cambridgeincolour.com/fo...3&d=1312369080

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Originally Posted by Ricco

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Except I would have liked to maybe not have the lower bits so prominent - but live and learn!

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Now this really appeals to me Ricco. You could always try a little localised guassian blur on that stamen, bottom right, just to fade it into the background more.

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6126/...b699bf8d_b.jpg
I am struggling with the name of this flower. My wife thinks it may be eupatorium.

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Originally Posted by terry j

These photos taken with a D50 camera and Sigma 105 f2.8 macro lens.

Water drop on a Shell Ginger plant flower.

http://i53.tinypic.com/6qy61k.jpg

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I like this one especially Terence, that drop of water on the bright red.

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Originally Posted by Letrow

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6126/...b699bf8d_b.jpg
I am struggling with the name of this flower. My wife thinks it may be eupatorium.

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Peter I have never seen one of these but it looks great. Looks almost as if it is a wire tree with little led's on.

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6125/...6092f490_b.jpg
Anethum graveolens or dill

As an aside:
At first glance, given the fact that dill is used in gravlax, I thought that the term gravlax was partly derived from the Latin name of dill.
Not true apparently: According to Wikipedia (not infallible, but still...) The word gravlax comes from the Scandinavian word grav, which literally means "grave" or "to dig" (in Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch and Estonian), and lax (or laks), which means "salmon", thus gravlax means "buried salmon"

And still the wonderful images roll on ! The variety is limitless.

Here's my latest attempt, some sort of grass flower.

http://i52.tinypic.com/okn6ur.jpg

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And still the wonderful images roll on ! The variety is limitless.

Here's my latest attempt, some sort of grass flower.

http://i52.tinypic.com/okn6ur.jpg

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Beautiful colours and they pop out nicely. The only thing I noticed is a sort of halo around the edges, how did you get that?

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Originally Posted by Letrow

Beautiful colours and they pop out nicely. The only thing I noticed is a sort of halo around the edges, how did you get that?

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Hi Peter

I think the halo resulted from me putting some extra Gaussian blur on the background using Photoshop. Not sure why.

Here is the same shot before the extra blur was added.

Cheers Dave

http://i51.tinypic.com/qz563o.jpg

Thanks Peter and Thanks Dave for the great feedback. Unfortunately it was pretty well into the day (giving the bright light). And to top it off, the water was covered with small debris.

I like the idea of a angled image. I played with rotating this one, but it just didn't seem natural. I'll try to go earlier for better light and pay closer attention to the reflections to see if I can come up with something a little more interesting.

Thanks again.