Flowers 12

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Long lenses compress background and foreground and giving you a much more shallow depth of field than wide angle lenses. I photographed this group of flowers using a 100-400 mm lens at 400mm. I used a diffuser to soften the light and some bushes and trees served as a wonderful background.

Enjoy and happy photographing!

Flowers 11

Last week I visited Gamble Garden in Palo Alto, CA. This is a beautiful garden to photograph flowers. for this week I challenge you to continue to work on flower photography and create some great images!

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I photographed theses Sweat Peas in bright sunlight. I used a round diffuser to soften the light and block out the sun on the flowers.

Enjoy and happy photographing!

Five out of One 01

This weeks challenge is to pick one image and create each day a new image out of the one image you have chosen. You can edit the image any way you like, just create a new one out of your original.

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I photographed this little stream yesterday at Kings Canyon National Park, CA. Here is my first image. I changed it from a landscape into a portrait and I increased colors and sharpness.

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Did my image improve? I think so. Enjoy and happy editing!