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Click to enlargeHappy Ruby Tuesday everyone, and Happy Hannukah to all who are celebrating.
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Hmmm... Now that this is up I don't like it at all. It looks squished. Bah humbug. The center looks right but the petals are all wrong. It didn't look that way when I was working on it. I was a lot happier with yesterday's flower. Grrr...
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Hmmm... Now that this is up I don't like it at all. It looks squished. Bah humbug. The center looks right but the petals are all wrong. It didn't look that way when I was working on it. I was a lot happier with yesterday's flower. Grrr...
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33 comments:
Squished? Tafsiki, it is beautiful.
Your bud photo is lovely too.
I had an intake of breathe when I saw this gorgeous RED daisy, Robin! I looked at yesterday's flower and it's exquisite too! Your work on these flowers is beautiful! Happy Ruby Tuesday! :)
The colour is striking. I guess it's a gerbera daisy so a little squished...but I can still tell what it is. ;-)
Beautiful bright red enhanced by the dark background, well-done!
Definitely stunning! And not at all squished :)
Great picture Robin:-) I love gerberas!
J'adore Gerberas... FAB photo!!!
Lemme guess, this is one you took with the borrowed macro filters, yeah? The thing about those? You go from a really short depth of field to ridiculously short depth of field given the same lens. I would suggest stopping down at least 3 stops from where you metered your exposure (adjusting the shutter accordingly obviously) so that you don't lose the background completely. So if you metered at, say, f/2.8 you'd stop down to f/6.3, slowing your shutter the same 3 stops to keep the exposure (which is dead nuts IMO) the same.
Truly it's not as bad as you think it is. There's a lot to love about it in fact -- especially the lighting. But if you're unhappy with the way the petals came out, try incrementally squeezing the aperture down checking the results as you go.
Macro filters are tricky beasts, especially in low light when your camera wants to open that lens up as far as it will go in "P"rogram mode.
It is stunning! Thanks for sharing!
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Nobody cares about the arrangement of pixels. We enjoy this scarlet flower, the shape and lovely details like this array of pistils in the middle. This is a beautiful capture!
I think it looks gorgeous!
It does not look squished. I love the Gerberas, gorgeous color.
I love gerbera daisies. That is a great shot Robin. Love it.
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oh, it's pretty! it's a beautiful shot!
Oh, I think it's beautiful!
I plainly enjoy the sight of the red gerbera.
In a decade or so I may be able to say something wise about it as well.
Now: It's a beauty to be studied for a long time.
Happy Hanukkah to you.
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Well...if it's any consolation, I like this flower very much. What a beautiful vibrant red! Lovely post!
Hmmm... I read Mojo's comment twice. It's truly a lovely shade of red, so if you get another one of these, keep taking lots of photos at different, um, f stops? apertures? And then tell us what you did.
I love it.
It feels as though the flower is peeking at me, slowly revealing how lovely it is
and the color is awesome
I like the way some macros fade away, leaving one with the sense of being eye-to-eye with the subject, with the surround disappearing into a haze. This is a splendid example of that effect!
It looks really warm. I feel I could boil a kettle on your flower!
I see why you like yesterday's flower ... it's lovely indeed, but I like your red Gerbera daisy too!
Hugs and blessings,
Fabulous shot of the striking red gerbera.
Stunning red! I like the shot of the center though.
Actually Mojo, I * wanted * to lose the background completely - this was shot against a solid black cloth bought expressly for that purpose :). The main problem was the lack of light that day that forced me to bump my ISO all the way up. Probably would have been better off pulling the tripod out sooner and going for a superlong exposure at a slightly smaller aperture, and tried your gooseneck lamp trick too (my photog friend recommends using halogen or other "cool" bulbs so as not to conflict with the daylight and drive the white balance sensors insane). I don't mind the blurriness of the petals so much as the fact that they somehow became distorted and now look flattened on top - I'd always intended for the center of the flower to be the main focus. It's all part of the learning process though. Next time I'll get a little bit closer to what I want, and the time after that a bit closer still.
wonderful shot!
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Wow...so very impressive.
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Great job taking the shot.
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wow thats lovely! I havent appreciate daisy thAt much til now :)
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I like the fuzziness in the middle.
Happy Chanukah to you.
I like it, Robin. I think it looks as though it's peeping over a parapet.
But I'm only a "point and shoot" kinda gal.
Oh! Purty in red!
Paz
I love gerber daisies too.. love the red very christamassy!
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