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Flowers & Nice music

Postby pixelpusher2010 » Sun May 22, 2011 4:57 pm

Tried to make a '' normal show '' instead of my usual ZISS BOOM BA
Good to calm down by
enjoy

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Re: Flowers & Nice music

Postby tomdavis » Sun May 22, 2011 6:05 pm

Very nicely done! I can see talent galore and you make a show stand out. Your gallery proves that. You have fun with pixels and taking pictures. Keep it up and will look for future posts.

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Re: Flowers & Nice music

Postby Jim Adams » Tue May 24, 2011 5:11 am

Excellent job with a tough subject, Bernie. You definitely learned how to control movement and backgrounds to your advantage. Great lighting and post processing. Loved the passionflower ripple effect.

I had an elderly neighbor when I was young who loved her flowers. I can't see a bleeding heart without thinking of her. Beautiful bleeding heart photo.

The soft music was an excellent choice for a show of such softness and delicacy.

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Postby BarbaraC » Tue May 24, 2011 5:31 am

I rarely to never comment on shows, but this time I had to because you ticked me off! You immediately spoiled me by stating the aperture settings, your settings being of huge interest, and then you all but stopped doing it, and I wanted to know your settings for every single picture! :D

Closeups of flowers can be so beautifully abstract, and you've done a fine job with those closeups.

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Re: Flowers & Nice music

Postby debngar » Tue May 24, 2011 6:38 am

These are sooooo pretty. I like that you found a flower within a flower of sorts in all your shots by doing the macro work and focusing on the inner parts of the flower.

Did you utilize a ring light for your shots?

There was a guy with a blog who captured abstract out of focus macro flower shots in camera (not done in post processing). Little to nothing was in focus. The flowers were sometimes unrecognizable but beautiful. I could see you doing a set of those for a show too. I think the guy's name was Michael Brown. If you go back to March of 2007 or so you can poke around and see some of that work on his site.

http://macroartinnature.wordpress.com/2007/03/

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Postby BarbaraC » Tue May 24, 2011 6:51 am

Debbie, I remember that one. Didn't he simply "shove" his camera into the foliage without actually focusing, ending up with some beautiful gems mixed in with the less-than-desirable?

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Re: Flowers & Nice music

Postby debngar » Tue May 24, 2011 6:56 am

Yes, I remember he describing the "smushing" of the lens. LOL

I found some additional images going back to 2006 in the spring on that site. They weren't the ones I remember seeing but beautiful compositions nevertheless. Also found the words "Cram It" for the technique. Describes it perfectly! LOL

Dandilion Abstract on this page is fabulous.

http://macroartinnature.wordpress.com/2006/03/
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Postby BarbaraC » Tue May 24, 2011 7:23 am

Yes, how could we have forgotten the name he'd given his technique! :D

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Re: Flowers & Nice music

Postby pat362 » Tue May 24, 2011 1:03 pm

Beautiful, Bernie! I've taken a number of photographic courses, I still can't get my head round this 'f' stuff! I hope one day it will just click :D

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Re: Flowers & Nice music

Postby Jim Adams » Tue May 24, 2011 1:32 pm

Some very interesting soft-focus images on those wordpress links, Debbie.

I agree that quite often results can be more pleasing when sacrificing depth of field for shallow depth since the backgrounds are out of focus.

One very effective technique that allows for a soft focus background and greater depth of field within the subject is called "Focus Blending". Russell Brown has a good tutorial here : A few paragraphs down from the top.

http://russellbrown.com/tips_tech.html

For anyone interested in Focus Blending that does not have Photoshop CS5 Helicon Focus has been doing this long before Photoshop included it in their repertoire.

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Re: Flowers & Nice music

Postby pixelpusher2010 » Wed May 25, 2011 4:56 am

Thanks to all for the input. I actually didn't think such a tame show was going to get any reaction.
Anyway points taken.

There is a much bigger sin than not providing the f stops on all the images and that is not also providing the distance from the subject. At 100 ft f11 gives you a lot more depth of field than at 3 inches. I make a show each Month for my camera club about half the members like technical stuff and the other half artsy stuff So I usually try to tease them both BUT from now on if I start down a road I shall go all the way

I did use photoshops focus blending effect on a few to play with the DOF ( sometimes not using one of my shots -like the middle one ) this gets the pedal in front and the pedal in back in focus but the middle part where the stamens come out soft )

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Re: Flowers & Nice music

Postby debngar » Wed May 25, 2011 7:05 am

Jim Adams wrote:Some very interesting soft-focus images on those wordpress links, Debbie.

I agree that quite often results can be more pleasing when sacrificing depth of field for shallow depth since the backgrounds are out of focus.

One very effective technique that allows for a soft focus background and greater depth of field within the subject is called "Focus Blending". Russell Brown has a good tutorial here : A few paragraphs down from the top.

http://russellbrown.com/tips_tech.html
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I did some shots using the "Cram-it" method with my 70-200 and close up filters about 5 years ago and had delightful results. At the time, I had no macro lens. I didn't use Photoshop to paint on any blur in post processing. I could be wrong but am pretty sure Michael Brown's technique is done in camera.
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