This morning I saw a beautiful blue Morning Glory blooming. I used my old 105mm Super Takumar lens at f2.8 to create this image.
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Category: Flower
Blue Dicks
I photographed these native California Blue Dicks in the foothills outside Yosemite National Park. I used an old Russian 58mm lens at f2.0 to create this beautiful background blur of the entire field of blooming flowers emphasizing just one stem and blossoms.
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Fortnight Lily
I took seven exposures of a Fortnight Lily which is currently in full bloom in Central California. I carefully overlaid these images aligning them and choosing about a 35-50% transparency. To correct the colors I edited the image in the LAB color space and finally applied a Topaz art filter.
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Spring Flowers
I am currently using all kind of techniques to photograph Spring flowers. In this image I used a wide open 50mm lens to create a very shallow depths of field. I got the center of the yellow flower sharp and I enhanced the sharpness just in the center in post production to create an even larger contrast. I addition I applied a painting filter on an extra layer to blur the rest of the image just a little bit.
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Having Fun with a Glass Ball
This blog is about ideas and techniques. We share and we challenge each other to photograph and to photograph again and to start all over again. Here is a cool idea. Use a little glass ball and start photographing. You will see the world differently and you will have some fun!
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Rose after the Rain
Water is precious in California. We were happy about the rain last night. It was not very much but it cleared the air somewhat. I noticed the beautiful light this morning and I decided to photograph the rose in my front yard. I used a white reflector to illuminate the rose from the bottom.
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