I’m heading to my favorite Iris garden tomorrow and decided to go back through my past images to get ideas and inspiration. I came across this one from 2019.
Any comments appreciated.
Fujifilm GFX 50S, GF 250mm f/4, 18mm + 45mm Extension Tubes, Tripod. .3 Sec @ f/22, ISO 400.
Minimal processing in Capture One.
I love how you’ve composed this, David, with 4 “diagonal quarters” all in good focus. And the contrast in colour between the bottom two parts is especially attractive. It must have been hard to eliminate the BG so well.
Irises in this color range are some of my favorites. This one looks fresh and rich. Agree about the positioning of the diagonals and tight crop - keeps the background away and us focused on those petals. The droplets are terrific. Maybe a little lift in the mid tones would give this some life and zip. Just a thought. Mid tones are my bug bear.
David, this is beautiful, and the droplets are a real extra. I find Iris to be difficult to photograph, for some reason, at least close up like this one. I think my problem is DOF because I don’t drop down enough with the f-stop. I see you used f22 here. Maybe if I get to point at one again I will try really close up like this with something like f22 and see what happens. Excellent shot.
@Mike_Friel, @Kris_Smith, and @Shirley_Freeman thank you for the kind comments. Much appreciated.
Kris, yes, I think the mid tones could be brought up a bit. They say that the middle frequencies in music are the breath of life, so too are the mid tones of an image.
Shirley, yes, I chose f/22 to get more DOF. I plan on trying some focus stacking later this week. We’ll see how that goes.
Cheers,
David
'Tis the season for rain-sprinkled iris! Gorgeous specimen, lovely light and stunning DOF – I would have thought it a focus stack. Interesting composition with one of the standards falling. I too need to try f/22 or even above more often. I really haven’t probed the diffraction limit with my current equipment.
