Everyone has their personal preference on whether they like their photos completely in focus or with some soft focus. For my flowers, I generally tend to like the soft focus more. My macro lens does a beautiful job of blurring the edges when I use a small aperture. It's a long weekend for us so …
Day 227 – Yellow Lilies
We had another beautiful bouquet of flowers delivered to our office yesterday with some gorgeous yellow lilies. I'm never one to pass up the opportunity to photograph some beautiful flowers. I wanted to try some different macro exposure to get both soft focus and totally in focus. I tend to prefer soft focus flower photos …
Day 81 – Experimenting with Orchids
Today I decided to do some experimenting in Photoshop and NIK software using one of my orchids as the subject. I took several different photos using different exposures, a couple of different lenses, a shallow depth of field, and various white balance settings. The background was a muted yellow and the walls in the room …
Day 78 – Begonias
One of the many things I am learning while doing this blog is the names of different flowers. While at dinner with friends yesterday I saw this beautiful plant. It had delicate white flowers with a beautiful pink around the edges. I asked her what it was and was told it is a Begonia. Of …
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