p.23 #5 · Anyone up/in for a "Canon Spring 2013" Thread???
15Bit wrote:
The approach of Spring here means that in the next week or two we will again be able to indulge ourselves and pursue our favourite weekend hobbies of:
Combined bicycle riding and flower picking:
All with 5D and 70-200mm f/2.8 non-IS
Love the deep contrast of these, #3 is really nice!
p.23 #7 · Anyone up/in for a "Canon Spring 2013" Thread???
Today some irises were blooming and the wind was sometimes manageable, so I tried a few approaches. I used a "kicker" flash (600EX-RT) to the rear and slightly camera left.Terry Bartick has inspired me to try some focus stacking, but I simply used Photoshop and the results are mediocre. I'll include one in the middle of this set. All shot with the 100/2.8L on a tripod.
single shot, not sure yet if I mind the background or not
An eight shot stack. I like the background blur, but not the blur without transition on the closest petals.
p.23 #8 · Anyone up/in for a "Canon Spring 2013" Thread???
Photon wrote:
Today some irises were blooming and the wind was sometimes manageable, so I tried a few approaches. I used a "kicker" flash (600EX-RT) to the rear and slightly camera left. Terry Bartick has inspired me to try some focus stacking, but I simply used Photoshop and the results are mediocre. I'll include one in the middle of this set. All shot with the 100/2.8L on a tripod.
You did good.... for a fiddler, that is.
Terry's images are indeed an inspiration to us. I am already trying to think of some different approaches to my old/stale floral photography in order to avoid completely shaming myself by posting in this thread next to Terry's shots.
p.23 #13 · Anyone up/in for a "Canon Spring 2013" Thread???
Photon-very nice iris shots. I do understand what you mean about the sharpness of the front pedal of the second stacked shot. Iris are very hard, at least for me.
I am not at the same level of photography that I see posting here often...Peter, Jerry etc...Sometimes with Iris being such a large and deep flower, makes it difficult to bring the stem into sharpness to offset the front pedal...and without a lot of shifting in the image to loose detail in pedals. What I try to do...angle the flower a little, get stem in slight more focus than the background...sometimes you give up sharpness in the back side of the lower pedals, and stem...to me..awh it is art...this is not my fav shot below yet shows kind of what I am speaking of...I think it adds to blending in the sharp front pedal into the background well. Again...I am novice-
I use ACR-CS6-edit...I do not always use the "AUTO" when I align layers together as I was originally taught...I have found sometimes that does away with important detail for a smudge look. Usually first I try "reposition".
I also find denoising the photos works very well when stacking a few photos...even using iso 50..
Peter....I am humbled by your kind words......IF I am correct, your floral shots often got the best of me...inspired me to get out and keep trying.
Here is one from today...these get harder and harder as I have less space to plant the tripod for the angle and view I would like!!! Plant growth...
5DIII-85mm 1.8-12mm tube-tripod-front light from early morning.
p.23 #14 · Anyone up/in for a "Canon Spring 2013" Thread???
Nice work with the 7D, Mpoole
My faves are #2 incognito duck and #3 with killer eye contact.
Do you find the <400 range useful? I run a bare 400 on my 7D because I always want more reach.
p.23 #16 · Anyone up/in for a "Canon Spring 2013" Thread???
onegreatcity wrote:
Love the deep contrast of these, #3 is really nice!
Thanks. They look pretty good in colour too, though i'm going through a B&W phase at the moment so you get those Number 3 is also (slightly) interesting in that it's a shot i just couldn't process satisfactorily with LR, so i dropped to my fallback Capture One to do it. Some shots just don't work well with the contrast curves of LR i find. My shot on side 21 is another that C1 seems to do better, as is this one (5D and Samyang 85mm f/1.4):
p.23 #19 · Anyone up/in for a "Canon Spring 2013" Thread???
15Bit wrote:
The approach of Spring here means that in the next week or two we will again be able to indulge ourselves and pursue our favourite weekend hobbies of:
Number 3 is also (slightly) interesting in that it's a shot i just couldn't process satisfactorily with LR, so i dropped to my fallback Capture One to do it. Some shots just don't work well with the contrast curves of LR i find. My shot on side 21 is another that C1 seems to do better, as is this one (5D and Samyang 85mm f/1.4):
