“African Daisy.”
Spending time with your subject is the key to success. It is exceedingly rare that someone can approach a subject, take a picture, move on and then return with a great a great photo. Most great pictures are created which includes an investment of time to get the best possible picture from the best possible viewpoint.
In this example I made a total of 41 different pictures of the African Daisy. I tried different viewpoints, different flowers, different backgrounds, motion during exposure and various compositions.
Now, I’m not saying you have to make 41 pictures every time to get one good one. Sometimes 3 or 4 different images will do, but flowers can be elusive and the wind often plays tricks on you, so I tend to cover myself with lots of exposures in the case of flowers. In total I made 75 pictures today, so more than half of my efforts were spent with this African Daisy.
It’s a pretty straight forward photo, but I like the pristine condition of this flower as well as the extraordinarily beautiful colour combination in this scene.
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9. August 2009 at 4:17 am
Love all the detail and the color is great. Thanks for sharing all the details that went into producing this image. Good to know that the elements mess with other people than just myself:)
10. August 2009 at 3:41 am
Lovely photo, and I like the frame.
Did you process the colour at all? It’s quite bewitching.
10. August 2009 at 8:57 pm
Thanks for your positive comments Barb and Mike – much appreciated!
Mike, I still shoot all my images in RAW for this compact challenge, so I have processed the image for colour and contrast as per usual with RAW files. However I admit I have pushed the colours as far as I thought they could go with this image as it was a lot of about colour for me with this one. However I was keeping in mind what the scene would look like if it was photographed on a slow slide film and I think it’s not too far off, perhaps with the green a bit more bright and vibrant as a result of the extra latitude you get with digital. Did I go too far?
10. August 2009 at 9:11 pm
Aha. I couldn’t put my finger on it, but I thought you had done something.
Not too far at all, I like the end result.