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I took these images at the time I took 'The Dreamy'. Closer and lower angled shots of individual flowers really has better effect. The backgrounds are a bit distracting in the tulip ones but I am really pleased with them, the way the wind played its part in blowing the petals open for me. A tripod was not used, as I was trying to capture blur in part. I did steady the camera as I leaned on the wall however, using a wide aperture for a narrow depth of field, with a low iso to help slow shutter speeds. My focus point was on the flower heads.
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Descending Blooms shows scale, colour, pattern, lines and perspective. I framed the main head in the centre as I did with 'tulips' but in 'open tulip' I used the rule of thirds.
This is a close up of 'Descending Blooms' (cropping in to show more texture and pattern) which I like because of its curling shapes. It reminds me of an abstract design.
by Heather Angel
These images also show perspective, colour, pattern, lines, texture and contrast. I love the inner effects of the chinese peony.
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I am really pleased with Flower spikes, (shot from the side of someone's garden) which shows the brightness of the white flower against the green foliage as in Heather Angel's and also its inner and surrounding detail. I liked the way the flower was alone and framed by a collection of spiked edged leaves.
I love the dreamy effect of this 'devils tongue' given by the mist background here is Heather Angel's image. Such an unusual flower and the colour tones blend beautifully. The composition shows lines, form, texture, colour hues, scale and pattern. The focus point is clearly on the flower cup.
All of the backgrounds compliment their subjects and make the flowers stand out in Heather Angel's images. Her compositions show perspective, colour, form, shape, texture, scale, lines and pattern. I love their clarity. She fills the frame mostly with her subjects and I have no doubt that a tripod would have been used in their taking, or else a very fast shutter speed... I am ensuring I use a tripod for all my close flower shots except when I am intentionally trying to blur them.
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I have been trying to isolate my flower images to focus on the main subject , as in Heather Angel's and to show either a plain background or near to it, or an out of focus one, which also helps the dreamy look I have been working to achieve. With Rose bud I think I got a mix of the two. I took the shot in my garden after a heavy downpour of rain so I was wanting to capture rain drop detail too. So where some of Heather Angel's imagery has been flowers on water (and I have been unable to come across such), mine are water on flowers.
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I am pleased with Old English for its traditional look and the contrast colours, which are highlighted particularly after heavy rain. I wanted to capture these colours knowing this and I also wanted to capture the rain drops on the roses and their leaves. I particularly like the large water balloon nestled within the bottom petal and focussed on the flower head, in evaluative metering mode, to show this. I also wanted the composition to be at the eye level, looking into the flower head from a side angled viewpoint. I think the gentle opening shapes of the petal tops shows their edge texture together with the inner core mass. Within this mass mystery shadows also lend to the background shadows. In this respect I consider the image to be well balanced, with little spots of other rose colour showing here and there within the frame.
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For this image I wanted to focus on the leaves and their water drops. Taking the shot from a lowish angle I liked the perspective: It looked like a raindrop was just about to fall from the third leaf onto the rose, or just miss it, but I was pleased I didn't miss getting the shot before it fell. Here I purposely put the rose out of focus, in manual setting, to ensure the crispness of the leaves to show their texture holding the rain drops, and also because the rose was not in good condition. It was just passed its best so I thought I would put it out of focus and focus on rose leaf shapes instead. The bad condition section of the rose actually catches the light well when put out of focus, so with that this image worked well. The background looks busy and so this was kept out of focus too. I think the scene would benefit from photoshop for a smoother background look maybe.
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Here I closed down the aperture to achieve closer detail in the raindrops that hung onto the rose. I had seen in a magazine how a manipulated image had put the roses in the raindrops and I had wondered if it was possible to capture their reflection in one, without manipulation. This was my attempt and on close inspection you can see some red reflection in the raindrop hanging from the left bottom rose petal. However the distinction of the whole shape of the rose in the raindrop is not there, as it was in the manipulated image I saw. I still like this rainy scene though and the way bits of red appear throughout the background and on the rose stem. I like the contrasts of the different shades of green leaves, and the way the light reflects under the base of the rose head. Another busy background, but I am learning that this can work if I isolate the main subject from others in its class.
