Botanicals

[Barefoot]

Here’s a six-pac from a trip to Botanical Gardens at our River Banks Zoo this past weekend.

[Barefoot]

[JAS_Photo]

Great captures! Hard to pick a favorite.

[kat]

Oh wow! I'm loving these! Great job! I like 1 the best. Just something about it.

[tomorrowstreasures]

BF - Lovely!!!

I too like the first one best ... but they are all so very nice!

[Barefoot]

Thanks, guys. I was there to see if the lotus were in bloom, but that first shot shows that they’re at least a week away. I had a friend with me and she hadn’t been to the zoo in a while so we didn’t waste the trip.

[jlabel]

Loved them all, specially the dangling white.
This colors are so rich, I have only seen on my nikon, are you shooting with canon?

[Marko]

Wow these are some wonderful sets. Great colour.
Shots one and four are my faves in the first set and 1,4, 6 from the second set.

Just curious here - what time range in minutes will you spend photographing a flower?

thx - Marko

[Barefoot]

Loved them all, specially the dangling white.
This colors are so rich, I have only seen on my nikon, are you shooting with canon?

Thanks!

I'm shooting with the Nikon D90 using a custom picture control that if I find it too saturated gets turned off or changed to one of the defaults in Capture NX2.

[Barefoot]

Wow these are some wonderful sets. Great colour.
Shots one and four are my faves in the first set and 1,4, 6 from the second set.

Just curious here - what time range in minutes will you spend photographing a flower?

thx - Marko

Thanks, Marko.

I have a hard time with botanicals. I'd probably be using the Nikor 60mm macro if I take the time to try to shoot them. Unlike most other macro lens, with the 60mm I have to get very close to the subject to get the true 1:1 and that gives me fits with lighting and my DOF. What I've been trying lately is to get back a little further and use f/16. That seems to let me get a handle on things, but it means a tighter crop in post.

Shooting time isn't anything out of the ordinary if I don't have to secure the subject from movement. Find a something interesting, set up the tripod, compose in the viewfinder, and as quick as autofocus can lock its done. I'll shoot three or four then recompose for three or four more before moving to another subject.