Florae

[ShadeOfDawn]

I traveled to an indoor garden in downtown Toronto for some floral pictures with my macro lens and these were my results:



http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a264/Shade17/white3.jpg



http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a264/Shade17/orange.jpg



http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a264/Shade17/Red.jpg



http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a264/Shade17/purple.jpg



http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a264/Shade17/pink5.jpg



http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a264/Shade17/yellow2.jpg



http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a264/Shade17/pink4.jpg



http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a264/Shade17/white4.jpg



http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a264/Shade17/pink3.jpg



http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a264/Shade17/Red2.jpg



http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a264/Shade17/pink2.jpg



http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a264/Shade17/white2.jpg



http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a264/Shade17/pink.jpg



http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a264/Shade17/yellow.jpg



http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a264/Shade17/orange2.jpg



http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a264/Shade17/white.jpg


P.S. i do realise that many of these photos have the subject in the dead centre - i did that on purpose in those cases. I took these photos with the intention of selling them in a photo show as decoration pieces, and i figured that in some cases the subject in the centre would do well. I know its a photography faux-pas but shhh. :p

[ivy'sgrandkid]

i love them man

[a7xbasketball]

I love them.
I wish I could have seen them myself in person they look very nice

[Barret_wallace]

really nice pictures!
you got an god eye :)

i think you could enhance the quality of some of the pictures
by using the rule of thirds
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=rule+of+thirds&btnG=Google+Search

I'm trying it out myself at the time being and I'm finding it very effective,

btw
maybe we should start an tread with different rules of composition?

[stine]

really nice! number... *goes back and counts*... 14 is my favourite. i have to say that i often center the focus myself so a thread on composition would be really great, barret! :)

anyway, that macro-lense surely paid off, didn't it?! :)

[Iiori]

These are beautiful. Great colors.

How large are you able to print these?

[ShadeOfDawn]

Thanks for all the nice comments!

Barret - i am very familiar with the rule of thirds, i was taught it in a media arts class two years ago, i decided to forget about it for some of these pics like i said in my original post. I would be interested in contributing to threads about the rules of compositions though!


And yeah Stine the new lens is great! I cant wait for spring to take more flower pictures - preferably ones where i dont have to use a flash like i did with these.

And Iiori the natural picture siz for all of these is 48.66 x 32. 44 inches at 72 DPI (or 123.62 x 82.41 cm)
I think they would print fine at that resolution because i printed another picture in its natural size at 72 DPI (it was from a different camera so smaller), but printing places seem to think it must be at 300 DPI at least - i could print these quite large still - they'll look more than fine at 12x18 inches.

[mollyduker]

Hey!
These are great. My only crit, is since the subjects of the images are so large, it might be more effective to have more in focus. I find the amount that is blurred slightly overwhelming. I like them alot.
-Mollyduker