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Playing with flowers

OK, I promise that I’ll get back to some good old fashioned bugs soon, but I thought I would post some more flowers.  Last weekend at the Bellevue Botanical Gardens I played around with daisies.  I took all of these shots with my 180L but without a tripod.  Instead I used my MT-24EX mounted on a Wimberley macro flash bracket.  I would like to say that a great deal of creative thought went into this decision – but the truth is I was too lazy to get the tripod out and spend a lot of time getting the position right.

The following is an experiment I did with a different daisy shot in Photoshop.  Here’s the original shot with no post processing.

I strengthened the shadows on it, upped the contrast, and did some light leveling to get this shot.

I think I like the second take a bit better, though I’m not sure if it is too simple.  Ironically this would probably make a good stock picture, though it would likely be rejected because the microstock sites have far too many daisy shots already.  I think Iike the concept of the white daisy on a dark background, but I’m not sure I think it is executed best in this shot.  Perhaps I have some daisies in my garden that my poor gardening skills haven’t killed yet and I can play around with this a bit more.

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