Thread: Post your native flora shots

Nice image Derek and good DOF as well

A close up shot using the 6T diopter on the 70-300VR

Kinda pales next to those closeup shots. Great pics guys.

Chucaro that image of yours you posted on page 1

is fantastic ! Looks like fireworks !

I spoted this Banksia bush the other day and took a shot to try to capture the colors and textures on it.
I think that it is very attractive.

Her goes. No botanist or photographer. These should do for flora and insect (is that fauna?)





Question for you Arthur. How do you get a predominantly black background? Is it done in post processing? If so how?

Originally Posted by slug_burner

Question for you Arthur. How do you get a predominantly black background? Is it done in post processing? If so how?

Nice images, the correct category for them will be flora because is the dominant subject in the image.

There are many ways to get a black BG.
You can preapre the shot with a balck board behind the flower, you can under expose one image and using 2 images work with layers in PP, you can select the BG in PP and play with it to get the BG or you can cut the flower and prepare the setting.

For close-uo shots with the diopter I usually cut the flower and prepare the setting like on the last shot of the Apricot grevillea details.

You can experiment with your first image doing a color selection in PS, invert the selaction and dark the BG (the green tones)
I also would increase the contrast in the flower to make it pop-up more.

Cheers

Originally Posted by Chucaro

Nice images, the correct category for them will be flora because is the dominant subject in the image.

There are many ways to get a black BG.
You can preapre the shot with a balck board behind the flower, you can under expose one image and using 2 images work with layers in PP, you can select the BG in PP and play with it to get the BG or you can cut the flower and prepare the setting.

For close-uo shots with the diopter I usually cut the flower and prepare the setting like on the last shot of the Apricot grevillea details.

You can experiment with your first image doing a color selection in PS, invert the selaction and dark the BG (the green tones)
I also would increase the contrast in the flower to make it pop-up more.

Cheers

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Increase contrast



Black Background



I think I may have overdone the black background