Flowers and other Flora
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Click said:Nicely done, npdien.
For sure. Would you mind commenting on how you approached that flower - analyzed the various factors, like angle, light, framing, background, is it relocatable etc. Thanks.
Jack
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Hi Jack. These flowers are abundant here now. However, they are bulky and, as such, it is quite hard for me to take nice pictures of them. I have taken a considerable number photos of these flowers and have scrapped most of them because they fail to look elegant in the pictures. I took this picture because, in addition to the flowers, there are interesting leaves around them. Leaves often help embellish flowers. I used Canon 6D with Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM Macro Lens. The ambient light at around 8.00 am allows me to set f8, 1/80s and ISO400. The flowers are put on the top right corner in order to include the interesting leaves on to the left of and under the flowers. The angle is adjusted to include the darker background in the frame. The tree is planted in the ground and, therefore, is not relocatable. It is on the road in my neighborhood where I go jogging every morning and I noticed it when jogging. I attach the picture of the environment including the tree, which was taken this morning, a day later. You can see the yellow flowers and the leaves near them look bright, standing out well against the darker background.Jack Douglas said:Click said:Nicely done, npdien.
For sure. Would you mind commenting on how you approached that flower - analyzed the various factors, like angle, light, framing, background, is it relocatable etc. Thanks.
Jack
Cheers, Dien
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Dien, that was a very helpful response and much appreciated. The average human has a pretty adequate brain but it is not always used adequately to really analyze the challenge at hand. That's my goal - to shoot with a purpose rather than the first impulse which tends to be, that's a beautiful flow, reproduce it and everyone will like it - snapshot.
Do you use different focal lengths much?
Jack
Do you use different focal lengths much?
Jack
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Very nice Dien. Thanks for the lowdown on what you're doing. Looks like I should have visited Vietnam when I was looking for a wife! 
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Jack Douglas said:Perhaps I shouldn't display my incompetence but I've never done something like this and am learning on the fly. Already I wish I could start over but it's glued on! Anyway, it qualifies as a flower photo.
Jack
Looks good to me Jack
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Jack Douglas said:Perhaps I shouldn't display my incompetence but I've never done something like this and am learning on the fly. Already I wish I could start over but it's glued on! Anyway, it qualifies as a flower photo.
Jack
impressive!
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You guys are too nice. At any rate the alternative was to leave it as weathered old concrete like it's been the past 40+ years. This is the job that qualifies me for a new camera body! If it's judged acceptable. 
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dak723, these are really nice. Dien puts a lot of thought into composition, that's for sure.
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npdien said:One wife brings enough issues to deal with. Are you looking for more problems?Jack Douglas said:Very nice Dien. Thanks for the lowdown on what you're doing. Looks like I should have visited Vietnam when I was looking for a wife!
Jack
No, not a second one! That was long ago.
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