Beautiful Orchid
Apr 23, 2014 09:10:33 #
johnst1001a
Loc: West Chester, Ohio
Since I received a lot of compliments on my first post of a hydrangia yesterday, I am sending another post with an orchid, accented with a black background. I have quite a few of these accented pictures, got a bit carried away, but they all come out beautiful.
Apr 23, 2014 09:16:52 #
Apr 23, 2014 09:23:36 #
Yes - nice contrast. But beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and although I look for beauty - I often think that orchids are ugly. However your pic is great.
Del
Del
Apr 23, 2014 09:28:33 #
johnst1001a
Loc: West Chester, Ohio
That's good input. Perhaps I will post some other more eye appealing flowers.
Apr 23, 2014 09:33:09 #
Apr 23, 2014 09:51:21 #
Great picture of the dendrobium. Black is a great backdrop for flowers. Suggest possibly using a reflector to add some light to the darker side of the flowers
Apr 23, 2014 10:02:21 #
John made a great picture but I am surprised to see you don't like orchids. My only explanation is that they present us with so much variety and some of them may have an ugly shape. Yet orchids are generally beautiful and most of them are very fragrant as well. I just completed a two-month session of photographing the annual orchid show at the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis. I am attaching here three of the more beautiful ones. All orchids share one characteristic: if you draw a vertical line at the middle, the two halves are always mirror images. In case you don't know, orchids grow on double bulbs and their name derives from the Greek word for two very important male organs.
PS No tripods or props are allowed in the show.
PS No tripods or props are allowed in the show.
Apr 23, 2014 12:42:59 #
johnst1001a wrote:
That's good input. Perhaps I will post some other more eye appealing flowers.
Look forward to that
Del
Apr 23, 2014 20:43:00 #
Perhaps I will post some other more eye appealing flowers.
It is a pity folks think orchids are not pretty. Personally, I never grow tired of them, and in fact, have been growing them since I was in high school.
Here is one shot of some of my own cymbidiums taken about a week ago.
You just keep taking great photos of things that speak to your soul.
It is a pity folks think orchids are not pretty. Personally, I never grow tired of them, and in fact, have been growing them since I was in high school.
Here is one shot of some of my own cymbidiums taken about a week ago.
You just keep taking great photos of things that speak to your soul.
Apr 24, 2014 10:38:48 #
I need to learn how to do that black background...makes the subject really pop....
Apr 24, 2014 13:46:58 #
1stJedi wrote:
Perhaps I will post some other more eye appealing flowers.
It is a pity folks think orchids are not pretty. Personally, I never grow tired of them, and in fact, have been growing them since I was in high school.
Here is one shot of some of my own cymbidiums taken about a week ago.
You just keep taking great photos of things that speak to your soul.
It is a pity folks think orchids are not pretty. Personally, I never grow tired of them, and in fact, have been growing them since I was in high school.
Here is one shot of some of my own cymbidiums taken about a week ago.
You just keep taking great photos of things that speak to your soul.
That pic is a mind-changing one - it IS beautiful
Thanks - Del
Apr 24, 2014 16:33:48 #
Apr 24, 2014 18:11:38 #
Apr 24, 2014 20:30:32 #
Delderby wrote:
That pic is a mind-changing one - it IS beautiful
Thanks - Del
Thanks - Del
Del, you humble me -- thank you. Now of course, I should apologize to John for taking over his thread a bit.
Apr 25, 2014 07:58:40 #
johnst1001a wrote:
That's good input. Perhaps I will post some other more eye appealing flowers.
Hi again John
I think your pic is pretty tech perfect - lighting is superb - arrangement is great - in fact I am encouraged to have a go myself.
Del.
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