NikonGear'23
Images => Nature, Flora, Fauna & Landscapes => Topic started by: Akira on November 29, 2015, 14:52:14
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Nikkor-O 55/1.2 at f1.4 on Olympus E-M5 Mk II.
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Deliciously soft and enjoyable. The colour contrast to the background works really swell.
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Nice reds Akira, my preference would be for sharper petals, but thats just me!
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Deliciously soft and enjoyable. The colour contrast to the background works really swell.
Thanks, Bjørn. As you would notice, I used the white and purple cyclamen as the background. I think the lighting helped somewhat...
Nice reds Akira, my preference would be for sharper petals, but thats just me!
Mike, thanks. I think cyclamen is a tricky flower to render sharply. Stopping down would make the background too busy. Softer rendition could "suggest" the depth of field better in this case. Otherwise the focus stacking a la Michael E would be needed.
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The Cyclamen is one of the most photogenic flowers IMO, along with the Calla Lily. I like to have a part of the flower in sharp focus and the rest gone to bokeh. Not sure which lens this is, but probably the same one Akira is using, the CRT-Nikkor.
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I find flower reds particularly difficult to get right, and outside my backdoor is a red rose which defies me every time I try to get the reds to my liking!
I have lived in my house since 1972 and a rose bush was there when we moved in, it has flowered abundantly every year since, I reckon it will see me to my grave. ;D
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The Cyclamen is one of the most photogenic flowers IMO, along with the Calla Lily. I like to have a part of the flower in sharp focus and the rest gone to bokeh. Not sure which lens this is, but probably the same one Akira is using, the CRT-Nikkor.
Michael, this is one of your classic images. Until you shared the images like this, I was not aware of the entire part of this well-konwn but somewhat enigmatic flower. The CRT Nikkor fascinates me on any cameras it is attached to.
I find flower reds particularly difficult to get right, and outside my backdoor is a red rose which defies me every time I try to the reds to my liking!
Yes, indeed. I would suspect that the red channel tends to be over-saturated too easily.