Simply Flowers

Simply Flowers

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"He must have an artist's eye for color and form who can arrange a hundred flowers as tastefully, in any other way, as by strolling through a garden, and picking here one and there one, and adding them to the bouquet in the accidental order in which they chance to come. Thus we see every summer day the fair lady coming in from the breezy side hill with gorgeous colors and most witching effects. If only she could be changed to alabaster, was ever a finer show of flowers in so fine a vase? But instead of allowing the flowers to remain as they were gathered, they are laid upon the table, divided, rearranged on some principle of taste, I know not what, but never again have that charming naturalness and grace which they first had."  Henry Ward Beecher

 

 

 

 

 

 

Simply Flowers

Here is a bunch of flowers - none of them is the expensive, exotic cultivars/varieties or species people usually chose to decorate their homes with. Everyday wild flowers, found in the fields, usually ignored by passers-by.

Photos by Marina Parha and George J. Reclos

Shooting Data:

1. Camera: Nikon D300
Lens: AF Tamron 180mm f/3.5 Macro 1:1
Sensitivity: ISO 400
Shutter speed - aperture: 1/250 sec - f/11, Manual mode
Flash: SB-800 in i-TTL/BL/FP (high speed flash synchronization) mode
Image: NEF edited in Photoshop CS4, levels adjusted, sharpening added saved as JPEG and resized.     

2. Camera: Nikon D700
Lens: AF Tamron 180mm f/3.5 Macro 1:1
Sensitivity: ISO 200
Shutter speed - aperture: 1/250 sec - f/8, Manual mode
Flash: SB-800 in i-TTL/BL/FP (high speed flash synchronization) mode
Image: NEF edited in Photoshop CS4, levels adjusted, sharpening added saved as JPEG and resized.  

3. Camera: Nikon D700
Lens: AF Tamron 180mm f/3.5 Macro 1:1
Sensitivity: ISO 200
Shutter speed - aperture: 1/250 sec - f/11, Manual mode
Flash: SB-800 in i-TTL/BL/FP (high speed flash synchronization) mode
Image: NEF edited in Photoshop CS4, levels adjusted, sharpening added saved as JPEG and resized.

4. Camera: Nikon D700
Lens: AF Tamron 180mm f/3.5 Macro 1:1
Sensitivity: ISO 200
Shutter speed - aperture: 1/250 sec - f/8, Manual mode
Flash: SB-800 in i-TTL/BL/FP (high speed flash synchronization) mode
Image: NEF edited in Photoshop CS4, levels adjusted, sharpening added saved as JPEG and resized.

5.  Camera: Nikon D700
Lens: AF Tamron 180mm f/3.5 Macro 1:1
Sensitivity: ISO 200
Shutter speed - aperture: 1/250 sec - f/8, Manual mode
Flash: SB-800 in i-TTL/BL/FP (high speed flash synchronization) mode
Image: NEF edited in Photoshop CS4, levels adjusted, sharpening added saved as JPEG and resized.

6. Camera: Nikon D700
Lens: AF Tamron 180mm f/3.5 Macro 1:1
Sensitivity: ISO 320
Shutter speed - aperture: 1/250 sec - f/8, Manual mode
Flash: none
Image: NEF edited in Photoshop CS4, levels adjusted, sharpening added saved as JPEG and resized. 


 

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