Thanks again, Dan. This is a very colorful, nicely rendered photo, but the covered pool showing through at the bottom detracts. One of the problems shooting forsythia is background control. The bushes are very colorful, but not very dense. I dealt with that in "Tree Hugger" by using the tree and a narrow angle of view.
What if you zoomed in tightly and shot the densest part of the bush with a fairly large DOF, to get the flowers and colors without the background? I did some more shooting of the "Tree Hugger" on my way home this evening, btw; I love the green of the leaves emerging while the flowers are still bright. Stay tuned. Cheers, Rick On Apr 11, 2016, at 10:38 AM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: > After Rick W's great image showing how beautiful Forsythia can be > (Tree Hugger PESO), I decided I had to try again to get a decent shot > of mine. It is not as effective as Rick's, but probably the best I > have been able to get of this very difficult shrub to capture: > > http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=18216587 > K-5 IIs, FA 100 mm Macro F2.9 > Comments are invited and appreciated. > > I planted this particulat specimen two years ago. Last year it was > rather weak, but it is coming along much better now. I hope that it > will be much showier next year. > > This has been a tough year for photographing flowers in my yard. The > past 4 weeks have seen freezing weather, heavy rain, snow flurries and > haigh winds. The blossoms on my Magnolias withered in a few days, and > turned brown and limp very quickly. The winds tood a lot of the > flowers from my forsythia that were more out in the open. Even the > daffodils and hyacinths have suffered from the poor weather, and are > not up to the standards of the past few years. > > Oh, well, that is what one should expect in the Northeast US, I guess. > > Dan Matyola > http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. http://photo.net/photos/RickW -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
