Welcome to the seventh installment of the Tuesday Photo Challenge! As Spring is everywhere in the northern hemisphere, I felt inspired to doing a theme that comes with the season: Flowers!
Of course, the beauty of flowers in their many forms should make it easy to create a stunning photograph of them… Then again, what makes for a great floral image, as opposed to a rather pedestrian one?
I my opinion, the first thing with any flower photo is that it should be exposed properly, ensuring that there is good sharpness and contrast to the image (there are exceptions to this, when creating more abstract floral images). Composition should not be forgotten, as poor composition will detract from the power of the image. And a bit of creativity does help 🙂
For those who’d like to participate in this weekly challenge, the rules are the following:
- Write a post with an image for this week’s topic
- Please use the tag #fpj-photo-challenge (if you’re not sure about how tags work, please check out this WordPress article about tagging posts)
- Create a pingback link to this post, so that I can create a post showing all of the submissions over the week
- Have fun creating something new!!
With this topic, I’m confident that there will be many great images!
Technical Details
This image was captured using a Canon EOS 5D MkII using an EF 100mm f/2.8 macro lens. Exposure settings were at 1/125 second at f/7.1 and 400 ISO.
Much focused……
Thank you!
Here is my entry. (The pingback does not seem to be working.)
https://iballrtw.com/2016/05/31/tuesday-photo-challenge-flowers/
Great entry! Not sure why the pingback is not working. I just checked the post and pingbacks and tracebacks are allowed. Might be a glitch with WordPress today; I had an earlier issue with the Daily Prompt, but that appears resolved.
Great job Frank, I really like the sharpness and how it pops off the background. The fact that you can still make out the yellow dandelion in the blurred background is a nice touch. Yet another great prompt, looking forward to playing.
-Steve
Thank you, Steve! Looking forward to seeing your creative endeavor this week!
Oh that’s beautiful, Frank! Thanks for the challenge (and the tips 🙂 ). Funny thing is, I took a few photos of this one particular flower I found over the weekend. So I may use that…I’ll have a look. Blessings.
Hello all. Nikki at A Kinder Way put me onto this challenge, so this is my first entry. I live in the southern hemisphere, so with the arrival of winter, a lot of our flowers are dormant. So the flowers I have highlighted in my post were taken in the summer. All the best to you from Brisbane, Australia. https://thrumieyes.wordpress.com/2016/06/01/tuesday-photo-challenge-flowers/
Thank you very much for participating in this challenge. You have put in a great entry to this challenge,
Frank
Thanks so much for the positive comment. Glad that it meets the challenge. 🙂
You’re very welcome! Great to have you as part of our intrepid group 🙂
What a great photo Frank, so sharp, crisp and clear. This theme should bring in heaps of gorgeous pics 🙂
Thank you, Miriam! I’m counting on lots of great ones!!
Beautiful Photo and great theme.. Looking forth for all the flowers this week 🙂
Thank you! There will be beautiful images and flowers!!
I did it Frank! Thank you so much. I learned a lot. So grateful. 🙂 Have a blessed Sunday.
Great to hear, Debbie! I’ll check it out when I get home.