Yesterday I visited a farm that has a sunflower patch on Long Island. My goal with these flowers was to work the composition and bokeh to get attractive images. I used 500mm and 90mm from different distances. These are my favorites.
Comments and suggestions welcome,
Morris
1)
X-H2SXF500mmF5.6 R LM OIS WR lens500mmf/5.61/4400s800 ISO-0.7 EV
2)
X-H2SXF90mmF2 R LM WR lens90mmf/2.01/5800s200 ISO0.0 EV
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X-H2SXF90mmF2 R LM WR lens90mmf/2.01/5400s200 ISO0.0 EV
These are beautiful, Morris. #2 would be my pick.
My only suggestion on all of these, would be to burn in the yellow petals a bit on the wilted sunflower (and maybe some of the yellows in the B/G too), so they don't draw you eye away from the healthy sunflower that is your subject.
Back when I was a professional doing a lot of print competition, one very handy technique I learned was to view any image upside down, to see what your eye was drawn to first -- if it wasn't the most important element of the composition, burn it in -- or brighten the main subject.
I love to photograph flowers -- they are pretty compliant subjects!
gmccroskery wrote:
These are beautiful, Morris. #2 would be my pick.
My only suggestion on all of these, would be to burn in the yellow petals a bit on the wilted sunflower (and maybe some of the yellows in the B/G too), so they don't draw you eye away from the healthy sunflower that is your subject.
Back when I was a professional doing a lot of print competition, one very handy technique I learned was to view any image upside down, to see what your eye was drawn to first -- if it wasn't the most important element of the composition, burn it in -- or brighten the main subject.
I love to photograph flowers -- they are pretty compliant subjects!
Another way to find high contrast eye grabbers is to view the photo smaller.
Morris
Interesting set Morris. I like the film-like grain included here. Speaking of eye grabbers, that one specular highlight on the background sunflower is what is grabbing my eye more than anything else.
Dave_E wrote:
Nice images Morris, I enjoyed your compositions.
Dave
Thank you Dave
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johnohio wrote:
Nice. Enjoy them now, will be gone too soon.
John
Thank you John,
I'm looking forward to the gold finches munching on them
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Erictator wrote:
Interesting set Morris. I like the film-like grain included here. Speaking of eye grabbers, that one specular highlight on the background sunflower is what is grabbing my eye more than anything else.
Eric
Thank you Eric,
With lower ISOs I chose to leave the noise alone as noise reduction interferes with aspects of the lense personalities and as you can see, both of these lenses have lovely bokeh.
