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.
![](http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3004/2593991205_6f9bf02779_o.jpg" width="800" height="533" alt="Purple daisy" /></a>)
The following is an experiment I did with a different daisy shot in Photoshop. Here’s the original shot with no post processing.
![](http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3248/2593991035_ca0097a419_o.jpg" width="800" height="533" alt="White Daisy Take 1" /></a>)
I strengthened the shadows on it, upped the contrast, and did some light leveling to get this shot.
![](http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3055/2593991091_c436251f91_o.jpg" width="800" height="533" alt="White Daisy Take 2" /></a>)
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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Tags: daisy, flower, macro, photography
Either way, it still looks great.
I prefer the slightly blurred background in the original. It feels natural. And the daisy from the second.