Photographing flowers around the house one Summer afternoon after a rain storm. I find the Iris is an interesting flower with its flowing petals, detailed structure, and bright colors.
Read MoreSummer flowers - 135MM | 1/320 SEC | F8.0 | ISO 320
Summer Flowers
I broke out the Canon EF 135MM F/2L lens with the Canon 7D Mark II the other day to capture the Summer flowers. Having been almost exclusively shooting the EF100-400 F/4.0-5.6L IS USM lens this Spring and early Summer because of all the kids sports, it was refreshing (and challenging) to go back to using that extreme shallow depth of field that you can achieve with the 135MM lens.
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Rose in black and white
Rose Bush
I am beginning to realize how busy a year this has been. These rose photos were taken in early September, processed, uploaded, and this blog post draft started. Now in mid-December, I am just now getting to finish the write-up. Oh well.
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Morning Glory conversion to black and white by Silver Efex Pro II
Morning Glory
Recently while reviewing the photos I have taken this past Summer I realized how few images of the flowers around the house have been taken. While outdoors shooting the birds this past weekend, I managed to capture the above Morning Glory in the late afternoon sunlight.
Read MoreJust another coneflower
The sunlight was filtering through an ornamental crab apple tree above the coneflower exposing both the flower and the green plant in the background. Photographed with the Canon 7D Mark II and the Canon EF 135MM F/2.0L lens and post processed in Adobe Lightroom.
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A black and white conversion of a red lily in daylight
Photographed with the Canon 7D Mark II and a Canon EF 135MM F/2.0L lens during a bright sunny afternoon provided an opportunity to expose the flower on a dark background with spot metering. Using Nik Software's Silver Efex Pro II, I was further able to push the background into black and isolate the flower.
The color photo is shown below.
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