My last few photos have been a little dull and gloomy, so I’m going the traditional spring flowers route for a slight change. These are pretty straightforward shots of pretty ordinary flowers so I apologize for that. I like to take my time when shooting flowers to come up with an artful approach to the shot. These were shot at a local business that has a garden beside the building. As I said in past posts, spring is a little slow coming this year so there were just a few early blooming flowers to shoot. I was limited by a fence to how close I could get so that’s why I couldn’t try different takes. I do see potential in the hyacinths for a good shot so I’m going to keep my eye out for some to shoot later. For my 365 photo, I did add a touch of orton effect in processing to jazz it up a little, though the out of camera jpeg was decent on its own. Spring No. 2 shot with a DA55-330 and Spring No.3 was shot with my Super-Takumar 50mm. I decided to try a square crop on the B&W shot because of the single flower subject.
Spring No.2
© David Guidas
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I love these! The first shot looks otherworldly with the magnificent glow of the flowers, and the second one is beautiful in its simplicity. Great shots!
Thank you so much for visiting. I like the second one also, I’m a big fan of simplicity.
I like square shots for flowers. When my photography interest was rekindled last summer it was due to a couple of macro shots I had taken. You can see them here:
http://discipuluscripturae.wordpress.com/2010/06/16/square-times-two/