Spider Orchid
Taken 3rd Sept 08. Sucker for Warwick Open space, even if I bring home a few more tics! This was worth it!
I played with this in raw and HRD, but reverted back to the orginal Jpeg image taken the same time as the raw image. Guess I’m past working with it after a full on day at work.
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WayoftheWarrior
Excellent detail
Maximus
Well named & well taken. :)
clarkey
Beautiful macro of one of our native orchids. Lovely crisp detail and the colours are gogeous. DoF is perfect.
gatherdowns
Spider or ballerina lol. This shot really stands out for the minute details you have captured.
Marvin Collins
Excellent shot Claire, just beautiful!!
Helene Kippert
Really beautiful
Prasad
Wonderful details!
Dave Law
Another beautiful capture Claire
John Pitman
Lovely sharp detail Claire. The Open Space must have an amazing amount of wildflowers. I’m heading North on saturday for 3 days to see the wildflowers. John
Lori Peters
Lovely composition, Claire. A great macro.
justrick
great shot of the spider orchid Claire, but those ticks can be nasty. make you very sick
this is the time of year they are most active. cheers rick
SharonD
Wow beautiful focus and flower Claire.
debsphotos
So delicate and pretty Claire!! Wonderful image!! *-)
Dennis Gay
G’day Claire,
A very lovely specimen of this rather unusual West Aussie terrestrial orchid that you have composed and photographed very well indeed!
The.jpg compression does not seem to have done any damage to the image and I beggar to ask why, WHY, would you want to “HDR” a beautiful natural wildflower anyway??? It’s almost sacrilege! HDR, if it is to be used at all should only be used on very selective photographs which have some exposure problems. I see no such requirement here. HDR is way over rated and over used in my ‘umble opinion.
Wonderful light and exposure, very good use of depth of field and a great focus.
As a bit of housekeeping I suggest you use the clone stamp and digitally sculpt that orchid petal on our left that is trying to escape, so it looks as though it is retained within the frame.
Contrast and colours are excellent!!!
Very good work that girl!
GB
Dennis
Claire Farley replied
Hi there Dennis…I just love your very valuable input and comments! Why HDR? Cos I’m still learning and like to see how things pan out when different techniques are tired. I would sooner or later work out which images to apply HDR to and how to get the best from my Raw images. It is a great learning experience. I guess on this one I took the lazy way out cos I was tired and what I was trying wasn’t working.
Thanks for the tip on using the clone stamp…..I didn’t notice this flaw at the time…..Thank you big time for your favouring on this one!
handprintz
Lovely capture Claire wonderful flower !
Stuart Rose
very nice work claire, lovely colours and great shot
Dayonda
What a beautiful little flower, and it does look something like a spider when I look at the whole pic!
Karen Helgesen
What a cool flower! I’ve never seen anything like it! Great job!
jacquei
A stunning macro with such perfect detail….........great shot….........jacquei