Flower week – The other end
Flower Week – Little ones
Flower Week – Much Pink
Growing wild
I think that nature photography is what grabs me most. Getting up close to a tiny, tiny wild flower like this is just fun. For this shot I used a reverse ring adapter with my Nikon 1.8 50mm. I need to get my extension tubes back from someone and venture out again focusing on macro shots in nature. I took the kids to this nature center and thought, we’ve been here 50 other times, I probably won’t find anything new…wrong. The outdoors are an everchanging canvas waiting to be painted and re-painted.
Intricate details
Pink jaws
Macro photography really does change how you look at the world. Normally when you walk around and look for interesting shots you look in terms of what makes an interesting shot within an area that might be several feet or maybe several thousand feet for a landscape type scene. What can I shoot that will say something? Maybe it’s some scene with people doing something or looking interesting. Maybe it’s just something that catches your eye as you are sitting at a stop light, like yesturday’s post with the lost dogs sign. With macro shots like this one it’s harder sometimes to find until you just take the camera and point the lens at something. When I put the extension tubes on, pointed at this carnation, looked through the viewfinder I immediately said whoa. The carnation at a normal distance is an interesting flower, but at this distance it becomes something entirely differnet. This interesting scene was only about 1/2 an inch in size. How many of these 1/2 inch size scenes are all around us everyday, waiting for us to see them and say…Whoa…
White Rose
This one turned out interesting because I didn’t really do much at all to it in photoshop. It had one duplicate layer set to overlay and one gradient map layer set to 40% opacity. The softness and the dark background were as it was shot and as I had pictured it in my head when I shot it, which is rare. Usually I have to work at it a bit to get the shot were it actually is in my head as I see it.
White roses
Rose
It’s a little more centered than I intended, but oh well. Oh, and I lied when I said one more black and white yesturday. Here’s another. :)
Baby sunflower
