Flower
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Tags: 2011, Canon 7D, flower, landscape Comments (0)
I’ve been very busy but finally today I got to play with my macro setup that arrived a couple of weeks ago. I got a set of Opteka extension tubes, a 3-in-1 gold-silver-white reflector, one of those rings of led lights for the lens and the flexible grip thing, all bottom of the line, but fun to play with. I was set of shooting water drops with reflections inside (oh, I bought glycerin), but that is much harder than I thought. So, when I went to walk the dog, I picked up a few flowers. The whole thing is challenging, wind, not enough light, difficulty focusing, but had a lot of fun. I finally decided to go inside, turn on a bunch of lamps next to the window and use the gold reflector to shoot light in from the window. I finally discovered that Live View makes things a whole lot easier.
I like the colors and curves on this one. I used Nik Viveza to reduce the brightness of the background which was originally a dirty brownsih color. Added contrast and vibrance, and reduced brightness on the petal in the front, which was way too bright. This was a lot of fun, spent much more time shooting than in photoshop. I’d like to do insects too.
Shot with the 28-135mm with the 21mm extension tube.
by szeke
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