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Dogwood
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Copyright: angela LL (angela926) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 388 W: 5 N: 484] (2572)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2009-05-06
Categories: Nature
Camera: Canon EOS 40 D, Canon EF 75-300 mm f/4.0-5.6 III
Exposure: f/9.0, 1/800 seconds
More Photo Info: [view]
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2009-05-08 16:12
Viewed: 202
Points: 20
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
This beautiful Dogwood blossom was taken at the Pruyn Sanctuary in New Castle New York.

Flowering dogwood is a small tree, up to 30 ft (9 m) in height and 35 ft (10.7 m) across, but the typical size is more like 15 ft (4.6 m) tall and 15-20 ft (4.6-6 m) across. It has a short trunk and a full, rounded crown with horizontal branches often in layered tiers, spreading wider than its height. The bark on mature trees is broken up into small square blocks. Flowering dogwood has opposite, deciduous midgreen leaves, 3-6 in (7.6-15 cm) long, which turn red and purple in autumn. Flowering dogwood blooms in the spring, as its new leaves are unfolding, and usually remains showy for 2-3 weeks. The inflorescence consists of four showy petal-like bracts, usually snow white or pink, surrounding a cluster of tiny inconspicuous yellowish flowers. The bracts are 1-2 in (2.5-5 cm) long and obovate in shape, usually with a cleft at the tip. Clusters of bright red football shaped fruits, about a half inch long, follow the flowers and often persist into winter.

Hundreds of selections have been named. 'Cherokee Chief' has dark pink bracts. 'Cloud Nine' has large bracts which overlap each other. 'First Lady' has yellow variegated leaves. 'Plena' has 7 or 8 bracts instead of four. 'Nana' is a dwarf, to 6 ft (m) tall. 'Pendula' has weeping branches.
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  • timtim Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1057 W: 106 N: 560] (9574)
  • [2009-05-08 16:42]

Great macro
nice focus, comp and DOF
TFS

Hello Angela,

Excellent macro with great background, lighting and contrast!
very well done and framed!
Congratulations and TFS.
Sergio

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  • Beger Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 3303 W: 787 N: 4421] (19888)
  • [2009-05-08 17:43]

Hi Angela,
This is a wonderful macro! The technical qualities are there but, more, the mood is so well rendered! This white wild flower seems to offer its pure beauty at the light!
You might print and hang it on your walls!
Beautifuly done! Annie

Hi Angela
This is beautiful
TFS
HienVy

Good Morning Angela,

You have done well to capture this blossom so well: excellent textures, shapes and no oe.
Nicely positioned in the frame with a fine dof.

Kind regards,
Bev :-)

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  • dareco Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1717 W: 16 N: 840] (15143)
  • [2009-05-09 20:58]

Very beautiful!! I like the lighting and detail. Interesting angle as well. Nice work! TFS

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  • soda Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 174 W: 67 N: 149] (2631)
  • [2009-05-10 6:46]

Hi Angela,
What a beautiful capture...
Outstanding details and color saturation , the blurry bg really brings out the subject, good composition and note.
Super work!!!
Lise

thanks for your recent comment. i love this shot but don't you just hate those green or blue aberrations on the edges.
i found this answer recently
some aberations, longitudinal chromatic aberation for example, are proportional to focal length... thus the use of low dispersion glass (ED, Fluorite) in long focal length (telephoto in 35mm) lenses. Other aberations, spherical for example, are nearly inversely proportional to focal length... thus the increasing use of aspherical elements in wide angle optics. A good example of the latter is in reflecting telescope mirrors. A spherical mirror makes a pretty good telescope if the focal length is long enough since a low curvature spherical surface is pretty close to the shape of the center of a parabolic surface... but shorter focal lengths require a true parabolic surface to produce good images. I suspect other aberations have other, or perhaps no, relationship to focal length. An overall look at lens designs suggests that both long and short extremes need special approaches to aberations, while "normal" focal lengths balance aberations pretty well without extreme measures. Thus many older LF lenses in the normal range (100-300mm in 4x5) still hold their own with the latest whizbang low-dispersion aspherical powerhouses.

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  • trekks Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2016 W: 144 N: 3390] (13589)
  • [2009-05-15 23:25]

hi Angela

Very nice macro shot of this white flower at a superb angle to show sharp detail and good bokeh effect.

Nicely done with light control.

You did very well for the bokeh effect with this POV and camera setting. Good macro work.

tfs, bill

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  • Juliet Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 871 W: 64 N: 1969] (13496)
  • [2009-07-27 8:35]

Hi Angela,
Another fine macro- great focus and colors. Your lighting and bg adds much to this photo. Nice composition. TFS Julie

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