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...so because I'm a good son, I spent many, many hours of my weekend
waiting for the Sun to come out, so I could take some nice crocus and
daffodil pictures. And all so I could make some nice mother's day cards.
Well, my mother really didn't seem all that impressed.
Personally, I think these are some of my best pictures yet. It's
astonishing how much difference some *sunshine* makes! Everything looks
so much less grey and miserably when the Sun is shining.
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Hundreds of daffodil pictures. Small bunches, big swathes, individual
flowers, low angles, high angles, wide aperture, narrow aperture, close
up, far away, with and without Sun as the clouds drifted past. And now I
present to you just the 5 best ones. I'm almost fed of up looking at
daffodils!
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Apparently just outside where I work, the builders planted a row of
yellow crocuses sandwiched between purple ones.
Actually most of them have been trampled flat by people trying to walk
to work. But there's a few of the left. After the yellow of a million
daffodils, it's nice to see some purple!
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On 11/03/2016 06:12 PM, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:
> Apparently just outside where I work, the builders planted a row of
> yellow crocuses sandwiched between purple ones.
>
> Actually most of them have been trampled flat by people trying to walk
> to work. But there's a few of the left. After the yellow of a million
> daffodils, it's nice to see some purple!
Come to think of it, that's one of the puzzling things. It's really,
really hard to find "perfect" plants to photograph. Almost every single
one has a few dead flowers, or one of the stems is bent, or the leaves
have been nibbled by snails, or whatever. I don't understand where
people get these pictures of 100% mathematically perfect plants from...
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Le 11/03/2016 19:15, Orchid Win7 v1 a écrit :
> On 11/03/2016 06:12 PM, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:
>> Apparently just outside where I work, the builders planted a row of
>> yellow crocuses sandwiched between purple ones.
>>
>> Actually most of them have been trampled flat by people trying to walk
>> to work. But there's a few of the left. After the yellow of a million
>> daffodils, it's nice to see some purple!
>
> Come to think of it, that's one of the puzzling things. It's really, really hard to
find "perfect" plants to photograph. Almost every single one has a few dead flowers,
or one of the stems is bent, or the leaves have been nibbled by snails, or whatever. I
don't understand
> where people get these pictures of 100% mathematically perfect plants from...
Do you know cooking book, with photos of serving dishes.
Same kind: hours of studio with make-up and dressing tools. Often the plate is cold
and the meal is no more eatable.
For instance, lobster once cooked are mat, yet most illustrations would show them
brilliant red... Bombing it with hair-spray.
You need a rose, perfect... order 200 roses and select, correct, remake
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On 3/11/2016 1:10 PM, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:
> Hundreds of daffodil pictures. Small bunches, big swathes, individual
> flowers, low angles, high angles, wide aperture, narrow aperture, close
> up, far away, with and without Sun as the clouds drifted past. And now I
> present to you just the 5 best ones. I'm almost fed of up looking at
> daffodils!
>
The close-up ones look especially nice. For the others, there is too
much that is out of focus. So maybe step back a bit and use the camera zoom?
Mike
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On 3/11/2016 1:12 PM, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:
> Apparently just outside where I work, the builders planted a row of
> yellow crocuses sandwiched between purple ones.
>
> Actually most of them have been trampled flat by people trying to walk
> to work. But there's a few of the left. After the yellow of a million
> daffodils, it's nice to see some purple!
>
I like the last two especially.
Mike
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http://www.metrolyrics.com/here-comes-the-sun-lyrics-beatles.html
:-)
--
Thomas
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On 12/03/2016 06:01 AM, Mike Horvath wrote:
> The close-up ones look especially nice. For the others, there is too
> much that is out of focus. So maybe step back a bit and use the camera
> zoom?
Yeah, on some of the shots I actually intentionally blurred some of the
flowers. I was trying to make it look like an almost endless sea of
flowers. On review, I actually liked the ones that were more in-focus
better. Had I known that when I was shooting, I would have tried with a
smaller aperture. (There was certainly enough sunlight for it.) Oh well!
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On 12/03/2016 06:02 AM, Mike Horvath wrote:
> I like the last two especially.
I agree. Although I thought the long line of flowers was neat too. I
wanted to get a side angle of it, but that would have resulted in death
from road traffic. :-/
I had to put the lens ridiculously close to the crocus to get the
close-up of the purple one. As in, I'm kneeling on the ground with the
front of the lens maybe 10cm away from the tiny flower. One of the
lenses I am very seriously considering purchasing is the Micro-Nikkor
105mm, which should allow me to take close-ups like that from much
further away...
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