CSand Loc: Fayetteville, Georgia

For those who did catch, thank you for your comments. Enjoy.

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Charlie157 Loc: San Diego, CA

Nice shots, love the photo of the rose the second shot.

rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona

Lovely work.
--Bob

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

Your earlier post occurs on the May 4 digest. What are you are concerned about?

blacks2 Loc: SF. Bay area

Beautiful presentation, #2 is super, my favorite.

ldhflyguy Loc: near Chicago

You have wonderful skills for flower photography.
I'm jealous.

CSand Loc: Fayetteville, Georgia

Yes, I am aware it posted on the 4th. I like to share with my friends and when it has a symbol next to it from the start, it doesn't remain on the first site for very long, an hour or so. I am not vain with my work but like for "usual folks" that I share with to have time to enjoy them. Did you enjoy them or just putting in your 2 cents? If your intent was to help, I thank you.

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

The overwhelming majority of users / members access the site from the Daily Digest email. For the day or two people are reading the digest in their email is when the majority of all views will occur for a given post.

When someone accesses the site directly, all of the various sections and views are presented as a sorted list based on the update time-stamp, within their "home" section. Each new entry or comment moves that specific post to the top of the sorted list for the instant until a new update is made.

Site users who view posts via the Newest Topics view and / or filter by Buddies will see a new post, period. A new post (one they haven't accessed by that account) is a new post, regardless of the section and activity in those sections.

My point is that you don't need to duplicate a post or otherwise manipulate posts so your people will see them. Once in the Digest, it will occur naturally.

CSand Loc: Fayetteville, Georgia

Thank you. Did you enjoy my photos?

CSand Loc: Fayetteville, Georgia

#2 seems to be the favorite. I am surprised though I like it also. Thank you for commenting.

CSand Loc: Fayetteville, Georgia

Appreciate your comment. Think we all have a favorite niche or two. I also love to shoot water. I am terrible with birds in flight. Have you tried flowers?

ldhflyguy Loc: near Chicago

I have tried lots of flower pictures and setups in my basement with variations of lighting and focus stacking.
I can make "Okay" pictures of flowers and "Sharp" pictures of flowers. Big pictures of tiny flowers and big
pictures of big flowers. None of my pictures have the "artistic look" that yours have. Your pictures look
as though you do them effortlessly. And, I'm sure you don't do them effortlessly. I believe you spend much
time in making your arrangements of the flowers "just right". The bokeh is amazing in your pictures.
The rose in picture #2 has a certain blurriness that goes perfectly with the bokeh of the rest of the picture.

Please share a little with how you create your flower pictures.
Any special lens? Special lighting? Special software?

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

Yes, the red lily is particularly nice!

CSand Loc: Fayetteville, Georgia

I am glad. God's Blessings to you.

CSand Loc: Fayetteville, Georgia

Be glad to. First of all is my amazing Canon macro EF 100mm lens. Shoots great in low light. My favorite time to shoot is 5 until dark. The light is wonderful at this time. And I love the light of an incoming storm. Actually I would say almost effortlessly. I let my camera find my shots. I look through the lens and float and move my camera about. Something will catch my eye,take my breath and there is my shot. I get down low and shoot up and through and into plants. I watch for blowouts. Light too bright on leaves, etc. and try to adjust view. I use a circular polarizer just about all of the time and I keep my exposure comp. at usually -1. Only in winter do I "set up". In this situation I use window light, late evening or low light from a lamp. Again I go into the plant or flower arrangement, letting my camera find the shot. It is there always. Multiple shots. I use LR for PP. My favorite adjustments are clarity, vibrance, contrast, sharpening-all with a light touch. I have a set of presets that I enjoy as well as save time. One quirk I find so important is to shoot vertically quite often as this gives long flower stems, etc., a natural flow. Nothing worse to me than a beautiful stem shot horizontally. You lose the rhythm totally. Flowers need to dance, flow, be natural. Not stiff and cropped too close. A natural environment of the plant, bush, tree gives great flow opportunity. Sometimes you have to center the bloom and it can look good, but most times go along the lines of your subject. Straight down into a bloom can work, but again more rhythm comes shooting at an angle across a bloom. I could go on and on as I love it so. Hope some of this helps and hope it makes sense to you. Sandy Oh, also important, I use aperture and most of the time choose 4. Then roll the manual focus until I get a look I like.