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Restless Sunflowers waiting for the dawn

I liked the idea of having these flowers in the foreground with the misty creek in the background. The flowers were a bit spread out and so I grabbed hold of some of the stalks to move them in position and held them there. As the light was low, and even with iso800, the exposure was 0.8 seconds and my hand was not steady enough to keep the flowers still. Subsequently I open the aperture to increase the shutter speed and got unblurred flowers, but I found I liked the original blurred ones better. This is a composite of two exposures, the blurry exposure for the flowers and a second faster one to stop the sky from saturating

Nikon D300 ,sigma 15mm f2.8

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Guest 08-Oct-2012 15:33
Great image, Robert. Well done!
Terri Steele06-Oct-2012 14:32
Love the tones in this shot... beautiful!
alexeig05-Oct-2012 20:34
Absolutely amazing, color and angle ... V
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