Water Lily
...one of the lovely water lilies in the ponds at Fiji
...one of the lovely water lilies in the ponds at Fiji
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Mar, 2016Views
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Location
I took this image in glorious Fiji.. where the waterlilies are plentiful... and usually with an extremely angry-looking little brown frog/toad on each oneTime
It was late afternoon on an overcast dayLighting
No harsh shadows.. which I love and I also find that overcast days lend themselves very nicely to B&W imagesEquipment
Camera: NIKON D70 Aperture: f/5.6 ISO: 320 Shutter Speed: 1/125 Focal Length: 1350/10 Hand Held No FlashInspiration
The sheer beauty of the water lily ponds is pure inspiration.. so much going on in them - and it's not hard to move the camera to the left or right and get yet another workable compositionEditing
This particular image, I wanted to try and make it a "reasonable" B&W image... i'm not too good with post-processing and only use clunky stand alone programmes from the net... but with this image, I really tried to keep the tones real and have no "blow out" highlighted areas... I sharpened the centre of the flower and put a vignette around the leaves to try to make the flower "pop" from the centre...I'm a huge fan of Robert Mapplethorpe's flowers and his (flower) work was always in the back of my mind while working on this image ;-)In my camera bag
I don't regard myself as a "photographer" so I don't have a bag, as such... my camera is always at the ready, usually on my desk or bench behind me - at best, I use a soft PJ bag before it gets thrown in my backpack - I use the one zoom lens always - 28mm-200mm - I'm a creature of habit - and just love taking photos at my own "granny" pace...I've always documented my life and surrounds through my camera - since I was a child.Feedback
No... just enjoy the details around you, it's all intricately woven; keep observing and viewing life from many standard as well as unique angles - go behind the subject sometimes to get a different perspective - but most of all enjoy the process, never stop wandering, wondering and observing - also experiment with an image in B&W occasionally - there's a whole new world of creativity in the B&W tones
