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Painted Sunflower

Painted Sunflower

A sunflower looks like the yellow has been painted with shades of gold and brown-

A sunflower looks like the yellow has been painted with shades of gold and brown-
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camera

NIKON D810

settings

settings

Aperture f/5.6 ISO 180 Shutter 1/640 Focal Length 1550/10

upload_date

upload_date

Aug, 2019

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49

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+6

Awards

Peer Award

Absolute Masterpiece

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The light is absolutly wonderfull!! It brings out so many layers of the leafs.!! Great capture Shirley!

Thank you, Michel. Photographing the sunflowers was a good experiment in light and how it highlights the flowers versus washing them out.

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