gjtoth Loc: Louisville, Kentucky, USA

I thought you'd like to see what the Daybreaker looks like fully open. This was shot with a softbox.

http://toths.us/GJT/_data/i/upload/2013/10/21/20131021214633-3b1e1770-la.jpg

Heirloom Tomato Loc: Oregon

She is a glorious beauty. Wow. Beautiful work!

gjtoth Loc: Louisville, Kentucky, USA

Thanks very much, HT. When I use one of my flowers for a subject, I try to catch it's beauty in all/most of it's stages... sometimes even wilted and withered. :)

ReFlections Loc: From LA to AL

Gorgeous !!!

Singing Swan

Absolutely beautiful.
Now.....if that just came with a box of chocolates and a dinner invitation I'd be in seventh heaven!!!!!!

I saw the other post you did with these roses, of the last teardrop. (One of my favorite oldies, too.) You make this beauty shine no matter how you photograph it. You do know it's photographers like you that spur me on to be better.

A friend of mine had a rosebush called Peppermint. Pink with white stripes like candy . It was at the front of the house where I worked and sometimes I would spend fifteen minutes to half an hour making photos of those roses, especially if I was there along with the early morning dew.

There are no roses here where I have moved to, none of the neighbors have any either. I really miss the abundance of wildflowers I had available in the mountains. Here, about the best I can do for flowers is a bunch from the grocer. That's okay though. I've been planting bulbs and gathering seeds. Next spring there will be an abundance of flowers here....if my green thumb doesn't fail me.

Thank you so much for this special gift. I have set it as my desktop background so I can look at it for a while and enjoy the beauty you have captured. I think I might just try to paint it if I can get the color right. THAT'S gonna be a challenge. :)

RE Loc: California

Absolutely breath taking!

Sylvias Loc: North Yorkshire England

Stunning :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:

Doddy Loc: Barnard Castle-England

A cracker Gary. Would frame beautifully.

gjtoth Loc: Louisville, Kentucky, USA

Thanks very much, everyone. In fact, Doddy, I do have a photo of this rose (a bouquet of 3) printed on metal paper and framed hanging on my great room wall. :)

gjtoth Loc: Louisville, Kentucky, USA

I sometimes head to the grocer for flowers when in the doldrums of winter. Nothin' wrong with that. ;) Getting the color right on roses can be tricky even for a photog. Lighting and angle can change it tremendously. Just have to pick an angle and lighting that you like best. This one is probably easier than those deeeeeeeep purple-almost-black roses. They're extremely difficult to photograph and get the color right.

clickergayle Loc: Warwick, England

A very beautiful rose and a very beautiful photograph of it, love the water drops.

Singing Swan

I had that problem with morning glories all summer. The pink ones were easy enough, but the blue ones :roll: I have shots of morning glories that run the gamut from light blue to purple and very few are true to reality. It was most certainly hard to get that color right, almost as hard as red. It proved to me how difficult it is to make the camera see the same thing my eyes do.

joer Loc: Colorado/Illinois

:thumbup: :thumbup:

lovemypups Loc: Kentucky

Beautiful Gary, truly beautiful :) :)
Debbie

gjtoth Loc: Louisville, Kentucky, USA

Thanks, folks! Yup, blues can be a bit of a pain. One thing you may want to do if you haven't already is set the WB manually. While AutoWB works a lot of times, depending on the color and lighting, it can fail and leave you with junk.