How about picking one and putting it in a container up on a ladder with the sky as the backdrop, like Rod's frangipani. It might be too late to experiment for this challenge, but you could try making your own backdrops with material, colored poster board, painting a board or some other method and have it far enough away from the flower so it would look blurry with your camera. Can you change the settings on that camera? If not, I see a DSLR in your future! :-) CJ
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20-May-2006 14:40
Thanks for your comment, Carole! Don't know its name, sorry. This was shot almost directly up, but I couldn't get the sky as background. As for hummingbirds, they are not very common here, but even if by luck I happen to see one, I'd need much bigger luck to capture it with the S1IS (I like the camera, but it has its limitaions :-) /Oved
I really like this flower - what is it? I love the colors of the buds Oved, and seeing all the stages of bloom in one picture, but maybe an off center composition might look better or pick a stem of it and shoot it against a different background as the leaves are a little distracting. If hummingbirds are attracted to it, it'd be fun to try and get a picture of the flower with a hummingbird. :-) CJ
