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15-Jan-2022 TRAVELLER

12 Morning Flower

This is actually a new gift (from a nice woman) I received 3 days ago. I shot it in the very early morning light with flash also, the day was new as was the gift....(Today, this afternoon, I tried this as a deep macro...but this is actually better, better expresses my intent with the fall off of the flash and shallow.ish DOF).

Canon EOS 77D
1/60s f/4.0 at 18.0mm iso100 full exif

other sizes: small medium original auto
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Canon Image Challenge23-Jan-2022 04:20
IMO, the white background would not look as good as the present blue.

Jim
Canon Image Challenge23-Jan-2022 00:08
If you want to use a whiteboard as a background try moving it well back of the subject so it’s OOF and lighting it separately. Paul
Canon Image Challenge22-Jan-2022 16:49
I like this a lot, especially the lighting.
Alastair
Canon Image Challenge16-Jan-2022 15:51
I am not going to post my "losers" -- too many of them. ;-)

Re your still life shot -
the lighting is great, giving you some shadows. I can picture the window on the left.
The background is a fine color for the subject; and sets off the ice plant.
The light texture in the background is just right.
The overall composition is a fine example of the rule of thirds.

Jim
Guest 16-Jan-2022 15:40
I did try to use white board and black board behind the flowers, it did not work effectively.

Also as you know, I am either lazy or busy (damned if I know), and so I never spend enough time on any project...I find it hard to believe that anything would be beyond your photographic grasp.

Post some here!...grin

Traveller
Canon Image Challenge16-Jan-2022 15:22
The quarterly challenge I have in process for my local photo club is "Still Life". As I continue to explore that photographically, I am learning a lot. This shot is a great example of fine classical still life.

Jim
Canon Image Challenge16-Jan-2022 08:26
I needed to keep the blue ice plant, lower right, in some sort of focus to balance off the natural tilt & weight from the main subject above. The image is already Skewed right, and the ice plant has received a lovely pantia of Dodging that I find quite agreeable.

Less agreeable was my shoot of this as a Macro....since I had to await an overnight's sleep to accept as acceptable the above frame, (as a starting point), it is quite possible that one of the Macro's will also look ok tomorrow...but I don't know.

Best Wishes, Traveller
Canon Image Challenge16-Jan-2022 02:16
This came out really well. A pretty good DOF even at f/4. The furthest flower is just about right.

Jim