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Dandelions Are Free - Installment #1
« on: June 20, 2015, 14:35:15 »
Dandelions are, without any second thought, my favourite flower. They are rebels and provocative, persistent, opportunistic, pessimistic, resilient, gregarious, diversified, ubiquitous, attractive, repulsive, weeds, red-listed, ..., and so it goes ad nauseam.

These days I mainly shoot dandelions in  UV as documentation of their fascinating UV signatures, but this is a pity considering all other qualities these remarkable flowers can provide. Accordingly I have collected and aim to present various dandelion photos as time allows.

Here is a sturdy and tenacious specimen captured from an inundated shore.  Just to show a dandelion is true to its character and never resigns.
 

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Re: Dandelions Are Free - Installment #1
« Reply #1 on: June 20, 2015, 15:51:52 »
XTREME edit. Very inspiring. I feel a tickle in  my camera hand
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« Reply #2 on: June 20, 2015, 19:42:16 »
YES! (For some reason that's my immediate response.)
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Re: Dandelions Are Free - Installment #1
« Reply #3 on: June 20, 2015, 19:49:05 »
Most people viewing this picture think alike, in that it represents an extreme degree of make-over or photographic manipulation in Photoshop.

To me, that only tells me people haven't really looked into what the camera can do for them on its own. Apart from a slight cleaning up in the workflow later of the yellowish hues to avoid some muddiness, *nothing* has been done.

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« Reply #4 on: June 20, 2015, 22:06:37 »
Very simplistic and bright - Inspiration is picked up...
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Re: Dandelions Are Free - Installment #1
« Reply #5 on: June 20, 2015, 22:09:55 »
In order to lift some of the enigma, might I add: *nothing* has been done in this digital capture that wasn't already feasible or conducted in the age of film.

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Re: Dandelions Are Free - Installment #1
« Reply #6 on: June 20, 2015, 22:12:00 »
What lens did you use?
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« Reply #7 on: June 20, 2015, 22:13:54 »
Nikon D2X with the 200-400 mm f/4 Zoom-Nikkor ED.

Exposures around f/4 and 1/1600 sec.

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« Reply #8 on: June 20, 2015, 22:16:12 »
I respect and appreciate that the camera sees different than we ... different than what we are accustomed to seeing. I applaud that you have ventured into the world of UV. The lack of manipulation stirs my imagination about what the signatures of other subjects may hold. For the record over manipulation in PhotoShop never entered my mind ... (but then I am a simpleton).
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Re: Dandelions Are Free - Installment #1
« Reply #9 on: June 20, 2015, 22:21:05 »
This is not UV, but I see your point.

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« Reply #10 on: June 20, 2015, 22:22:21 »
Intriguing as always...
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« Reply #11 on: June 20, 2015, 22:25:19 »
I think people learn more by engaging their mental powers instead of getting the straight answer.

If anyone should arrive at the method applied, I will confirm.

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« Reply #12 on: June 20, 2015, 22:25:53 »
This is not UV, but I see your point.

Having never seen a UV image ... I mistakenly thought the image was UV ... the fact that it isn't UV, in my opinion, makes it even more remarkable.  ;)
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Re: Dandelions Are Free - Installment #1
« Reply #13 on: June 20, 2015, 22:28:47 »
Yes - I know the rules  :D

Do I see four fingers?
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Re: Dandelions Are Free - Installment #1
« Reply #14 on: June 20, 2015, 22:33:27 »
Still have 5 on both hands.