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18-JUN-2008

6/18/08 - Compose for the Background

The Shasta daisies are starting to bloom - and are taking over their corner of the yard; gotta' split them this fall. While looking for an interesting Shasta image I noticed a pot of pink flowers several feet behind the daisies - lined everything up and came away with this. Someone once said - find an interesting background first and *then* find something to shoot in front of this background. I once spent an entire day trying to do just that - looked for colorful potential backgrounds and *then* searched for a subject. An interesting exercise.

Nikon D300
1/400s f/3.2 at 105.0mm iso800 full exif

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marko gregoric15-Aug-2011 22:05
Wonderful! V
Apri 19-Jun-2008 23:23
A *very* useful tip, and a lovely example!

Thank you on both counts.
Michael Shpuntov19-Jun-2008 02:14
Wow, excellent. Vote.