"What if you zoomed in tightly and shot the densest part of the bush with a fairly large DOF, to get the flowers and colors without the background?"
I tried. The result was not pleasing, but rather dull. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 9:31 PM, Rick Womer <rickpic...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks again, Dan. > > This is a very colorful, nicely rendered photo, but the covered pool showing > through at the bottom detracts. One of the problems shooting forsythia is > background control. The bushes are very colorful, but not very dense. I dealt > with that in "Tree Hugger" by using the tree and a narrow angle of view. > > What if you zoomed in tightly and shot the densest part of the bush with a > fairly large DOF, to get the flowers and colors without the background? > > I did some more shooting of the "Tree Hugger" on my way home this evening, > btw; I love the green of the leaves emerging while the flowers are still > bright. Stay tuned. > > Cheers, > > Rick > > On Apr 11, 2016, at 10:38 AM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: > >> After Rick W's great image showing how beautiful Forsythia can be >> (Tree Hugger PESO), I decided I had to try again to get a decent shot >> of mine. It is not as effective as Rick's, but probably the best I >> have been able to get of this very difficult shrub to capture: >> >> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=18216587 >> K-5 IIs, FA 100 mm Macro F2.9 >> Comments are invited and appreciated. >> >> I planted this particulat specimen two years ago. Last year it was >> rather weak, but it is coming along much better now. I hope that it >> will be much showier next year. >> >> This has been a tough year for photographing flowers in my yard. The >> past 4 weeks have seen freezing weather, heavy rain, snow flurries and >> haigh winds. The blossoms on my Magnolias withered in a few days, and >> turned brown and limp very quickly. The winds tood a lot of the >> flowers from my forsythia that were more out in the open. Even the >> daffodils and hyacinths have suffered from the poor weather, and are >> not up to the standards of the past few years. >> >> Oh, well, that is what one should expect in the Northeast US, I guess. >> >> Dan Matyola >> http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > http://photo.net/photos/RickW > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
