...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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:-)


-- 
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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