Category Archives: Flowers

Oinge

It has been almost a week since I posted a flower picture and I’m sure that Russell was probably getting a little antsy, so I’ll post one of my favorite pictures that I took at the Iowa State Fair.




I might even finish the week out back to back to back flower pictures. You never know.

PARTICULARS

CAMERA: SONY SLT-A65V
FOCAL LENGTH: 60mm (90mm – 35mm Equivalency)
ISO: 800
APERTURE: f/4
EXPOSURE: 1/160
DATE: 08/22/2015 – 18:22
LATITUDE: 41° 35′ 42.9″
LONGITUDE: 93° 33′ 4.9″
ALTITUDE: 245.85 meters

Weed

Saw this spot of purple in my backyard so I figured I better photograph it. After all, somebody once said that “if you don’t notice a spot of purple in nature, it pisses God off.”




Okay, that isn’t the exact quote, but I’m not feeling the motivation to look it up. Google is all the way on my other monitor. Looking over there seems like a ton of work suddenly.

PARTICULARS

CAMERA: SONY SLT-65V
FOCAL LENGTH: 60mm (90mm – 35mm equivalency)
ISO: 160
APERTURE: f/4
EXPOSURE 1/100
DATE: 09-28-15 – 17:08
LATITUDE: 42° 3′ 18.5″
LONGITUDE: 93° 52′ 14.8″
ALTITUDE: 346.78 meters

Yello

I thought I would conclude the work week with another flower from the Iowa State Fair.

Painting this weekend. You’re still welcome to come over and throw some paint on to my house. With a paintbrush or roller.




I’m hoping after this weekend I will have the creative time to start taking photos on a more regular basis again. But we will see.

PARTICULARS

CAMERA: SONLY SLT-A65V
FOCAL LENGTH: 60mm (35mm equivalency – 90mm)
ISO: 1250
APERTURE: f/4
EXPOSURE: 1/160
DATE: 08-22-2015 18:16
LATITUDE: 41° 35′ 42″
LONGITUDE: 93° 33′ 5.4″
ALTITUDE: 213.01 meters

Sorry. Not Sorry.

While I’m rediscovering the joys of Photoshop, you may get several posts like this one you’re staring at.

Below is basically the original image. Yes, a little color correction and eliminated some debris from the petals, you know how it is…


Flower from the Iowa State Fair.

Anyways, I wanted to play with some of the black & white settings in Photoshop and so I made this bad boy…


Changed to black & white and tinted slightly.

Anyways, I enjoy it.

PARTICULARS

CAMERA: SONY SLT-A65V
FOCAL LENGTH: 60mm (35mm equivalency – 90mm)
ISO: 800
APERTURE: f/4
EXPOSURE: 1/160
DATE: 08-22-2015 – 18:15
LATITUDE: 41° 35′ 41″
LONGITUDE: 93° 33′ 5″
ALTITUDE: 188.31 meters

Tone

Recently picked up the most recent edition of Photoshop. The photo below is the result.


Playing with the HDR Tone settings in Photoshop.

Got a little crazy with the HDR toning, because that is what I do.

PARTICULARS

CAMERA: SONY SLT-A65V
FOCAL LENGTH: 60mm (35mm equivalency – 90mm)
ISO: 1000
APERTURE: f/4
EXPOSURE: 1/160
DATE: 08/22/2015 18:15
NO GPS DATA

Macrovision

I didn’t take any form of tripod on this trip to the State Fair, so I had to shoot pretty wide open.

So one gets this…


I think it was around this time that I thought about doing the thing that would ultimately get me in trouble, but I didn’t do it for quite a bit longer.

PARTICULARS

FOCAL LENGTH: 60mm (35mm equivalency – 90mm)
ISO: 1000
APERTURE: f/4
EXPOSURE: 1/160
DATE TAKEN: 08/22/15 – 18:14
NO GPS DATA

Zing!

Probably my favorite part of the Iowa State Fairgrounds in the garden next to the Agriculture Building. I only had a brief amount of time to enjoy the nation’s best state fair this year, so this was my first stop.


A zinnia in the garden next to the Agriculture Building at the Iowa State Fair.

The garden always has lots of zinnias, which is good, because I usually have none. Well this year I completely neglected my flowers. I’ll do better in 2016!

PARTICULARS

FOCAL LENGTH: 60mm (90mm – 35mm equivalency)
ISO: 640
APERTURE: f/4
EXPOSURE: 1/160

Man Loved Flowers

Obviously I couldn’t wait too long without publishing a flower photo.

This is a picture of a flower that was entered into the flower competition at the Iowa State Fair.


A flower in entered in the Iowa State Fair flower competition.

Flower competitions remind me of an old quote:

God loved the flowers and invented soil. Man loved the flowers and invented vases.

DETAILS

ISO: 1600
FOCAL LENGTH: 60mm (90mm – 35mm equivalency)
APERTURE: F/2.8
EXPOSURE: 1/160