Hello Everyone!
Except for the first and last, these were all taken in the past month or so. If you can't see the connection, turn your computer screen upside down for the answer below (lol).
1 - f/5.6, 1/640, iso400, 200mm
2 - f/5.6, 1/640, iso250, 300mm
3 - f/5.6, 1/640, iso100, 300mm
4 - f/5.6, 1/500, iso1600, 300mm
5 - f/5.6, 1/640, iso400, 300mm
Happy spring (or autumn if that's your part of the world)!
Answer: Spring beauty emerging from winter's darkness
Lovely set of images PG. I love the dark toning and the expression of new life. Favorites are #1 & #4.
My minds wants to reframe #2 to bring the growth away from the center (gut instinct, or an idea planted from years of ingrained 'rules'?).
Thank you, Alan! I see your point on #2. I'm torn because I like the large maturity of what has died contrasted with the small freshness of what's coming to life. At the same time I like your close crop because the new life feels more intimate and hidden.
Photo Girl, All your images here wonderfully depict your theme “Spring beauty emerging from winter's darkness”. I especially like your image(s) of the mushrooms (#1) and Blue Flags/Iris (#4). I have an affinity to all kinds of fungi and lichen, and what better to show spring’s “literal” emergence from winter’s darkness than the earth’s fruiting bodies of Mycelium.
Iris have always been a favorite spring flower ever since my childhood and the garden variety I grew up with, and was exhilarated learning of their wildflower existence.
Along with the subjects I like the compositional elements you have chosen for these subjects!
Thanks for sharing them. Beautifully done.
Thank you, Paul! I appreciate your thoughtful feedback. Fungi and lichen are wonderfully texture-ous to photograph. I can see why you enjoy them for other reasons too. The wildflower version of Iris is so simple and and elegant. Hope your enjoying your springtime!
Being married for over 40 years to someone in the horticulture business I can't help but pick knowledge my osmosis. One of my favorite things is to see when the earliest in the season I can find a particular plant bloom, such as Snow Drops, Trillium Ovatum, Iris Tenax, Ghost Plant and more.
I love the shallow depth of field f/5.6 gives at 300mm when shooting close to the subject.
#1 and #3 are my favorite.
EDIT: Wow, first time in the past three days that I have posted and not received an Error Message every time!
Dean I too have been getting lots of errors and have found after the first one refresh/reload the page seems to help. ?
Same here, Dean. I've been having problems for quite sometime now. Don't know what's up. I did mention it to Alan Brown.
Thank you for your comments, Dean. Hope you're recovering well and enjoy your end of April time away.
Thank you for your comments, Dean. Hope you're recovering well and enjoy your end of April time away.
Nice! For me, the first one is the best.
Thanks Charles! Me too.