This is my favorite picture that I took from the Botanical Garden because the flower looks like it is laying wide open on top of those leafs. I love how everything in the photo is in focus and how you can see the textures on the leafs and the pedals.
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This picture was the most favorite picture I took at the Botanical Garden because I like how the rays of sunshine appear in the photo. I also really liked the detailing of the leaves and how it was the focal point of the overall picture.
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Out of the whole bunch this was my best shot. I did crop it a little, the bee was centered and i decided to crop out part of the top and right side of the frame. In my opinion what makes this shot most interesting is how the flower is leaning, it makes it seem like the bee is actually pushing the flower down. The light is coming from behind the bee which gives it a interesting halo effect and the sharp focus removes the background and lets the viewers eye completely focus on the bee.
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This is my favorite photo that I took at the gardens. I love it, for one, because I was able to catch the spiderweb. When I saw this beautiful, huge spiderweb, I was thrilled. I took several pictures of it but on the camera screen at the gardens it didn’t look like I was successful. When I saw them on the computer, I was thrilled!! This was the best one, and I love the way the sun is coming through the web. (It is easiest to see if you click on the image, it will come up full size, it is difficult to see at this size.)
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This is my favorite picture. I really like the yellow color from the flowers. It makes them jump out from the background. The shadows and the blurred create a deep sensation of space.
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Out of the 35 million 400-ish pictures I took, this one is by far my favorite.
I even pulled some Photoshop voodoo and added some saturation to it, then proceeded to make it my Wallpaper Of The Week. Maybe even the month, in this case.
Aside from the contrast between the vibrant oranges and greens versus the more understated neutrals, it just makes me think of a greenhouse in some fairy tale castle. I think it’s the column and the vines that seem to wrap around it.
Also, I just have a fondness for macro shots. There’s something about them that just looks so pro to me. Same thing with bokeh.
After applying some Photoshop hex magic, I ended up with this:
Which looks even prettier, in my opinion.
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My favorite picture from this shooting is probably this one because I really liked the bokeh effect it created for the background, and also because of the contrast of colors from the “flower”(is it really a flower?) and the rusty bar right next to it, and also because the flower/plant sort of looks like a person to me and therefore it adds emotion to it.
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I really like the texture and soft lighting on this sunflower. I like the way the petals appear to be in motion.
The most significant thing that I learned in the lighting class is that only the background has to be illuminated for back-light photos. I had always thought that the light had to be directly coming at the subject from behind and directly aimed at the camera. I never knew that you could only illuminate the background to get silhouetted shots.
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This was one of my favorite pictures from the sunflower shoot because of the use of radical cropping. Also, the lighting emphasized the texture of the petals.
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The successful picture is a leaf that is part of a sunflower is the leaf. This leaf is emphasized by its texture, the background is out of focus which makes it unimportant thus the leaf is the purpose of the photograph and this picture is very positive which takes up the whole scene.
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