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jasonmanning
February 20, 2018
Thanks very much Sammie roll on warmer days and more photos will be coming
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Location
I took this photo in a local park near my homeTime
It was sometime around 3pmLighting
This photo was taken in natural summer sunshineEquipment
I used a canon 5d mk iii and a sigma 120-300 f2.8Inspiration
I had only just received my lense in the post went out after work to find some interesting things to photograph, and stumbled across this lovely setup, I adjusted some of the foliage as gently as I could, took a couple shots to find the right amount of depth of fieldEditing
I recall seeing this on my 4K monitor as close to full res as I could and merely adjusted the brightness a touch for the background and a tiny amount of crop rotation just to line the flowers up a little better, I added a small amount of noise reduction and clarity to make the fully in focus photo some what more punchy and finally a smidge of vibrancy as my old 5d was well used and for some reason didn’t reproduce colours too wellIn my camera bag
Nowadays I carry a canon 1d mk iv, canon 24-105 l is Usm f4, a sigma 120-300 f2.8 a 55-80 converted macro, an old 50mm 1.4t fe mount from my old ae1, two wireless flash guns a third trigger flash, an old canon 450d, a camera strap and a 1.4x teleconverter. And finally strapped to the back of my bag is a medium sized tripod.Feedback
Use as fast an aperture as possble to start and then work one photo at a time, set your camera to aperture priority and change it up to about f16 or so and you will find the sweet spot , I find for this sort of result a longer focal length helps, that’s not to say a 24-105 f4 won’t do it, just the background won’t blur out so much
