January 2017 - Close Up or Creative Crop.

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January 2017 - Close Up or Creative Crop.

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Jfabiao indicates I have to set this months competition again. It is getting harder to come up with something new, but what about a close up of your plants, or even a cropped close up from an existing image? My pictures below do not count for the competition and are solely here as illustrations. You can produce close up's from your existing pictures by creative cropping in post processing, often giving an image a slight diagonal twist to enhance it, or an existing close up will do.

See how to:-

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http://photographingflowers.blogspot.co ... hotos.html

The original picture.
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Other similar crops
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Evidently this was a crop in camera, rotating the plant slightly since there are four stigmas showing, but only two in the picture of the plant.
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Hope for more blooms this year
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A close up with a bit of a crop
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I suppose I could have made use of all those mega pixels to crop this picture taken further away but I suspect the results would only have been suitable for viewing on small screens
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Should have said, don't forget to crop on a copy of your picture and keep the original uncropped one. Save the cropped version under another name.
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Puya humilis flowers in my garden.
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A couple of Tunilla circles:
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Interesting topic,
Promise of a new year
Promise of a new year
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Signs of life
Signs of life
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2 year old aztekium seedling
Prettiest stigma around
Prettiest stigma around
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Here are a few that I took earlier:
Copiapoa hypogaea
Copiapoa hypogaea
Faucaria tigrina
Faucaria tigrina
Gymnocalycium baldianum in bud
Gymnocalycium baldianum in bud
Gymnocalycium baldianum in flower
Gymnocalycium baldianum in flower
Lobivia winteriana
Lobivia winteriana
Lobivia winteriana cropped
Lobivia winteriana cropped
Notocactus leninghausii with visitor
Notocactus leninghausii with visitor
Notocactus ottonis v. vencluianus
Notocactus ottonis v. vencluianus
Turbinicarpus frailensis
Turbinicarpus frailensis
Turbinicarpus sphacelatus
Turbinicarpus sphacelatus
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One of two good ones therefore it was hard to choose, but I give it to Rod for the Notocactus leninghausii with hoverfly therefore he can set February's competition.

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