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p.41 #1 · Alt Flowers

mco_970; beautiful alpine scenery.

5D3 + CV 125

0J7A0553 by helimat, on Flickr

Cheers,

Mat

Sep 18, 2012 at 05:37 PM

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p.41 #2 · Alt Flowers

mco_970 wrote:
Booo. I clipped the whites just a little bit. Still like the shot, tho.

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Very nice. Flowers in full sunshine are often very tricky to expose properly, esp. if the surrounding scene has a wide DR. You could have protected the highlights on the white petals more but at the expense of the shadows and the blue sky would have become grainier, etc... Basically you have to bracket and blend exposures to get an optimum result.

Sep 18, 2012 at 06:07 PM

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p.41 #3 · Alt Flowers

Thanks all. Bracketing would have been tough on that day - wind was kind of whipping them pell mell.

Just a touch of underexp. would have worked, maybe...

Mat - really like your white coneflowers! Gorgeous bokeh.

Sep 18, 2012 at 07:16 PM

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p.41 #4 · Alt Flowers

white cone flowers photo is great

these two are taken with the Nex7 and the ZM 50 1.5 wide open with a helicoid adaptor. Funny little lens but i like it, very difficult to take a sharp pic wide open, it has a very dreamy ( motion blur ) look but stopped down it gets very sharp!

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Sep 20, 2012 at 12:20 AM

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p.41 #5 · Alt Flowers

135/2.8 vivitar on Canon 30D (or 40D)

Sep 20, 2012 at 02:31 AM

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p.41 #6 · Alt Flowers

@jay tieger: I love the lighting on that shot. It really shows off the color of those upper petals.

How is it lit? Thanks.

Sep 20, 2012 at 04:15 AM

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p.41 #7 · Alt Flowers

ucphotog wrote:
@jay tieger: I love the lighting on that shot. It really shows off the color of those upper petals.

How is it lit? Thanks.

Thanks, but I can take little if any credit for the lighting....
Sometimes the subject does it all
...I just used the on-board flash...

Sep 20, 2012 at 04:57 AM

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p.41 #8 · Alt Flowers

Jay: Also great sharpness (detail), too.

Sep 20, 2012 at 07:41 AM

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p.41 #9 · Alt Flowers

@Jay: I was wondering if it was that or window behind you. The light is clearly from above, but it doesn't have that stark contrasty look that often accompanies a flash. Perhaps because of the black background?

Thanks.

Sep 22, 2012 at 11:55 PM

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p.41 #10 · Alt Flowers

Canon 5DMkII - Leica R 100mm f/2.8 APO-Macro-Elmarit
Freaky little flower:
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Sep 23, 2012 at 03:02 AM

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p.41 #11 · Alt Flowers

@ucphotog....

One of the nice aspects of the 40D is that I found its pop-up flash to be less harsh than others...

....if you look close at the petal on the top left you can see the direct shadow of the flash on the bottom petal...

I think the dark background enhances the soft appearance...and shooting with the 135 had me at a distance from the flower and that helped to soften the light...

Window light had little if any effect on the shot...

Sep 24, 2012 at 12:00 AM

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p.41 #12 · Alt Flowers

I actually use other lenses as well.... sometimes.

25/2 ZE

f/5.6
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f/11

50/2 ZE

f/2.5 (yes, I first left the f/2.5 from the CV but I actually aperture bracketed the shot and I liked this one the best even though it's not in perfect focus)
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