Spring Flowers
I just love the first flowers of spring. My garden has lovely spring bulbs that are blooming, and with the help of my little 3-year-old assistant, I was able to grab a few fun macro shots. These flowers just have the most amazing details. For my fellow photographers–these are all in full sun, shot using a golden reflector and my little assistant serving as a gobo to block direct sunlight. That setup allowed me to grab better detail with my 100mm macro lens.
Posted in Macro and Outdoors and outdoor 1 year, 5 months ago at 10:32 am. 6 comments
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Gorgeous images Emily. I especially love the first one, the new tulip. The lighting on these is beautiful, thanks for the details. I can’t wait until we have flowers where I live.
I took one that was exactly like your third one yesterday — without the helper
Can you post or send me the info on the pic? I want to see how much it differed from mine on the 40D.
Did you mean the closed hyacinth, or the purple flower? The hyacinth is ss60, f3.5–that was shot before I pulled out the reflector. The purple flower was SS1000, F9, also without the reflector. The first 2 were shot in the technique I described.
Just beautiful pictures of your flowers. Thanks for sharing.
Flowers are great and all, but you need to get back to taking pictures of bugs.
being an avid gardener, I think these are some of the prettiest pics I have ever seen!