In last week’s post of photos from my late summer garden, all were taken using an 80mm – 400mm telephoto zoom lens. With this week’s photos I had gone back to using the 105mm macro lens.
Cosmos bud on its typical long stem. Despite the darkness of the background, flash was not used for this photo. The darkness come from adjusting the Levels function in post processing.
Coneflower with flowers grwoing out of its seedhead; the result of a plant disease known as aster yellows. See here for more information about aster yellows.
Cosmos bud with high key processing.
Flesh flie on a New England aster bloom. The dark background is the result of using flash.
Flashed was also used for this cocmos bud.
Flash was used for this other example of aster yellows …
… and for this orange sulpher cosmos. So, when shooting macros, flash does not always result in a black background. It all depends on how far away the background is from the subject and how relective the background is.
Thank you for stopping by.
David
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Interesting with your high key processing.
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I don’t do it often because I generally like more contrast in my photos.
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You have a wonderful garden, David. It must have been a blessing during lockdown.
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Thank you Gabriela. Yes, with all the park and other closures during 2020 I would have been lost without my garden. Fortunately for us the closest thing we got to a lockdown was from about March through April when we were asked not to go anywhere unless we needed to. Does one really need to go to a bakery? I thought so, for mental health.
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Ah, you got off easy! We had to complete these forms each time we left the household (like they did in France and Italy). But the police never stopped me.
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Yes, reading the news I realized we did get off very easy.
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