The flower and the beastie

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• Beger (19916)
• [2009-09-25 12:30]
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Hi Jon,
Very nice contrast with magenta and green here!
However, I think the photo has a lack of sharpness. Just try Unsharp Mask, amount 165%, radius 0,3 pixels and threshold 0 levels, you will can see the difference!
Best regards! Annie

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• tyro (3929)
• [2009-09-25 16:23]
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Hello, Jon.

Well, before I wrote this, I tried exactly what Annie (Beger) wrote and, I must say, I didn't see any difference. Did you try her advice? Perhaps she should have uploaded a workshop for us all to see.

Anyway, this is a nice picture of some wild flowers. I'm by no means an expert on flowers, but I think these are members of the Leguminosae family, like peas and beans (pulses), which are very valuable to us and other animals because they have little things in their roots which can absorb nitrogen from the atmosphere and incorporate it into proteins.

The flower heads look just a little like snapdragons or antirrhinums: in Scotland, they used to be called "mappy mou's" or "rabbits' mouths" because they looked like them - if you squeezed the sides of the flower, the "mouth" opened and a little tongue stuck out.

Nice picture!

Kind Regards,

John.

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• hifimusicdai (5503)
• [2009-09-25 17:15]
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This is a pretty flower but I think that I would have focussed on the actual flowers and excluded a lot of the green background and even some of the leaves. This would have had the bonus of making the beastie and the flowers bigger and easier to see. TFS
warm regards
David

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• bri (2423)
• [2009-09-26 2:22]
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Hi Jon,
Nice shot and lucky to get that fly on the flower, looks like it was a bit cloudy and at the 70mm length on the lens and a bit of breeze I think this would have been a bit sharper with a higher ISO. Great shot, great colours and great framing. TFS
Bri

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• luckybry (6826)
• [2009-09-26 3:23]
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nice one Jon wel captured hawkeye only gripe is the bestie is a bit isolated i would have gave a tighter crop here to conentrate on the leave the beastie was on just my op tfs
regards bryan

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• Dot (12574)
• [2009-09-26 8:12]
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Hi Jon
Your focus was more on the fly and its flower so its natural that the rest would not be so sharp as your aperture was wide. Using a smaller size like F8 would have given you sharper details of the leaves and flowers
Nevertheless you got pretty nice results giving great colors

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• boreocypriensis (8300)
• [2009-09-26 13:19]
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Hi Jon,

An impressive macro capture of these pretty flowers with their fly visitors. Excellent details and fine composition.
TFS and cheers,
Bayram