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ZOOM – Blurs and Multiple Exposures of a Gerbera Daisy

If you’ve come via the home page or wandered through the galleries, you may have seen these images before even though they are barely 24 hours old. I took some time yesterday and worked on making images of the Gerbera that were different from what I often see and interesting to me from a compositional [...]

Simple Oxeye Daisy

 

(1/100 sec @ f/11; ISO 200; 0 EV; Focal Length 135mm; natural light)

… from our Saturday morning trip to Jacobsburg State Park here in Pennsylvania. In this particular case, I set up the camera directly above the flower and shot straight down at it so you don’t see a stem. It appears to be just [...]

First Daisy of the Season (Chrysanthemum leucanthemum)

(1/15 sec @ f/22; ISO 400; 0 EV; Natural light)

Made this image a fews days ago but it got lost in the HDR IR shenanigans of the past few days.

I used a simple set up comprised of my Canon 30D with the Sigma 150mm macro lens; tripod-mounted.

Hope you enjoy the image.

Pushin' Daisies

Well, I guess I am really only pushin’ one daisy in this image. 

I made this image late last Spring using a Canon 30D and 70-200mm f/2.8L IS lens w/ a 500D close-up lens (filter). I focused on the yellow center of the flower and opened up the aperture to f/4 which allowed me to slightly [...]

Zoom In… Zoom Out

In my previous post (”Patterns”) I said that I am now much more likely to photographically decompose the subject and focus in on specific elements of a flower rather than the flower itself. While this is true, it doesn’t mean that I have totally abandoned flower portraits. I still work a few into almost every [...]

Breaking the Rules

What would life be without rules? Some might say much better. Others might say anarchy.

Rules are made to be followed… sometimes. And rules are made to be broken… sometimes. The trick is knowing when to follow the rules and when to break them.

Take the image above. I have broken a rule of photography that says [...]

Looking for one thing…

and finding another.

Sometimes we find ourselves so focused on what we are looking for that we fail to see what is right in front of us. That almost happened to me this past weekend when I stopped by the local floral shop in search of that perfect rose to photograph. Fortunately the florist allows me to browse the cooler on my own. I [...]