Yeah it's a good one - but it managed to coincide with the first day of our precious mid-semester break. Big frownies from here.Consider yourself lucky. In college, we used to pay big bucks for that effect. :-)
Frank: > I'm quite disappointed. I though it would be flowers that had parts > that looked like human dirty bits. But, no, it's just the rude bits > of flowers. Oh well.
Next time I'm out and see one of the fungi of the genus Phallus I'll think of you and hope I have my camera (-:
> Nice colours. Real interesting OOF stuff in the background. I like > that only one bloom's in focus and the other's not. The two flowers > are very nicely positioned.
Thanks - you are commenting on the *other* photo of Caladenia that's also in my webspace... now the whole story outs itself.
http://davidavid.whatsbeef.net/caladenia2.jpg is the one I posted,
http://davidavid.whatsbeef.net/caladenia.jpg is the one that got the comments (-:
I took that latter photo a week or so ago, but wasn't happy with the result. You can see it's been fiddled with a bit - I tried to bring out the background (it was the old problem of photographing flowers that are just so much brighter than their surroundings). So I uploaded that pic to show to a mate of mine, saying I wasn't satisfied with it. I convinced myself I should go back and reshoot, to try out the trick of doing two exposures - one for the flowers, one for the background. So I went back there and shot the same two flowers. The result, for some reason, was that they were all underexposed - the ones that were supposed to have the background nice were just good for the flowers. But luckily while I was there I shot some stuff at high magnification with a 50mm or 28mm and combinations of a reversing ring and extension tubes. The one I posted was with the 50mm reversed in front of something like 30mm of extension.
So now I absolutely have to go back again and try and get something on the same theme of the first one (-:
I'm glad you liked the positioning of the flowers and the DOF - it's something that I actually put some thought into (-:
Ryan: > Nice shot David- if I could get in any closer though, I'd go for the tip > with the 'prongs' and the curled 'leaf' bit.
Could be interesting - next time I'll take the bellows (-: I love the little yellow tip.
> Just trying my luck, I removed
> '2' from the image name; that one was pretty good too. I try to reinterpret
> it though, removed a speck from a petal and shifted the black point
> http://home.iprimus.com.au/heygoose/caladenia1a.jpg
> What do you think?
Hrmmmm.... I see the effect you're after - it's exactly the one I've been trying to avoid recently (black background). In this case, I think it could work, the subjects being so bright and the whole contrast thing. In fact, for caladenia2.jpg, I actually did a similar thing - shifted the black point to kill the background to black.
Stay tuned, I may be able to drag myself off my sick bed in a day or two (-:
David
