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:-
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000989.htm
http://photographingflowers.blogspot.co ... hotos.html
The original picture.
Cropped version
Other similar crops
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.
January 2017 - Close Up or Creative Crop.
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January 2017 - Close Up or Creative Crop.
Last edited by DaveW on Mon Jan 02, 2017 4:31 pm, edited 2 times in total.
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Re: January 2017 - Close Up or Creative Crop.
Hope for more blooms this year
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Re: January 2017 - Close Up or Creative Crop.
A close up with a bit of a crop
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
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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Re: January 2017 - Close Up or Creative Crop.
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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Re: January 2017 - Close Up or Creative Crop.
Puya humilis flowers in my garden.
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Re: January 2017 - Close Up or Creative Crop.
A couple of Tunilla circles:
Tony Roberts
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(Gasteria, Mammillaria, small Opuntia, Cleistocactus and Sempervivum are my current special interests)
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Re: January 2017 - Close Up or Creative Crop.
Interesting topic,
2 year old aztekium seedling
2 year old aztekium seedling
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Re: January 2017 - Close Up or Creative Crop.
Here are a few that I took earlier:
Rod Smith
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Re: January 2017 - Close Up or Creative Crop.
Sheila
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Born in Essex – growing in the world
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Re: January 2017 - Close Up or Creative Crop.
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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