Johnson's blue

[chrisec]

Gerainium Johnson's blue



Geranium Johnson's blue by Chris Cangialosi



Canon EOS 60D
EF-S18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS

[Tigger]

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that works Chris - love the OOF background, I'm starting to prefer these types of backgrounds to the blackout ones, but its not easy finding the flower and keeping an eye on whats going on behind

[CountDavid]

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My thoughts are the same as Ian's.
Backgrounds can make or break a picture and selecting the right one - even if it is available - can be difficult.

David

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My thoughts are the same as Ian's.
Backgrounds can make or break a picture and selecting the right one - even if it is available - can be difficult.

David

one of the local garden centers is happy for me to walk around with my camera and tripod - but most of the photos are in cluttered locations so have to loose the background completely, often just with a ring flash method

[chrisec]

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that works Chris - love the OOF background, I'm starting to prefer these types of backgrounds to the blackout ones, but its not easy finding the flower and keeping an eye on whats going on behind

Thanks Ian. I thought you might like it and thought you would recognise the background processing. Its your favourite of the day, none other than...Radial Blur!!!

Backgrounds can be messy and difficult to manage. You could: Use a printed A4 sheet (colour/deign of your choice) and put behind the flower. Get the background out of focus with depth of field settings. Cut the flower and photo in doors/studio set up. Cut the flower in photoshop and do what you want with the background then paste flower back. Probably trying to teach you how to suck eggs though, I guess you know all this.

As for the black background I will have to carry on with this for the forseeable future. But I do like the blur effects.

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problem is most of my flower photos are garden center work so I'm limited what I can get away with .....and we sadly don't all have the luxury of your well stocked flower garden ;o)

I find the back background photos look a bit sterile almost text book style , where as the natural ones look more like nature photos, if you see where I'm coming from - its almost like two different genres in photography, both have a place and both offer something completely different

[CountDavid]

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one of the local garden centers is happy for me to walk around with my camera and tripod - but most of the photos are in cluttered locations so have to loose the background completely, often just with a ring flash method

A not-so-local-to-me nursery let me loose and found me some space in a poly tunnel. I had a table with me and was able to move plants from their stock position to get to my table. Had some flash set up (580 and 430) and a white background.
I prefer to photograph flowers in situ but that is not always possible - so sometimes a specimen has to be picked!

David

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thats a very accommodating garden center, I'm just allowed to walk around and move things a little ....

[chrisec]

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problem is most of my flower photos are garden center work so I'm limited what I can get away with .....and we sadly don't all have the luxury of your well stocked flower garden ;o)

I find the back background photos look a bit sterile almost text book style , where as the natural ones look more like nature photos, if you see where I'm coming from - its almost like two different genres in photography, both have a place and both offer something completely different

You could always buy the plant from the nursery
As for black backgrounds I use these for a botanical/horticultural data base which serve the purpose well. The black backgrounds I post here are not required or don't make the grade.
I do prefer a softer background for natural photos and I am finding more time to pursue this, so more of this type will be posted in future hopefully.

[chrisec]

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My thoughts are the same as Ian's.
Backgrounds can make or break a picture and selecting the right one - even if it is available - can be difficult.

David

Thanks David.

[Tigger]

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You could always buy the plant from the nursery
As for black backgrounds I use these for a botanical/horticultural data base which serve the purpose well. The black backgrounds I post here are not required or don't make the grade.
I do prefer a softer background for natural photos and I am finding more time to pursue this, so more of this type will be posted in future hopefully.

now that could get very expensive ;o)...

I think we are both heading down the same "natural" route - although my GC ones will probably be blackouts

[tesarver]

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Well done Chris

Tom

[Parsen66]

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Superb Chris, really like that very much. Enjoyed reading the debate between natural and plain backgrounds, I prefer something natural but understand it's not always possible or the right thing to do.

[chrisec]

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Well done Chris

Tom

Thanks Tom

[chrisec]

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Superb Chris, really like that very much. Enjoyed reading the debate between natural and plain backgrounds, I prefer something natural but understand it's not always possible or the right thing to do.

Thanks Alan.