Botanic Garden Flowers

[DanielA]

Went into the Adelaide Botanic Gardens yesterday with another group of photographers to shoot the Sacred Lotus.

Sacred Lotus:


A lily:



It was very hard to get decent shots of the lotus without ending up in the water.

Daniel

[Alpha_7]

The first two are really lovely in my opinion, the last two have suffered due to the lack of access to the lotus.

[DebT]

Hi Daniel,
nice lotus and thanks for reminding me they are in flower as it only happens for a short time each year , today looks nice and overcast so think I'll pay them a visit . Agree it a real bugger that they can be hard to access - need to take a long hook to turn the flower heads towards the lense.
Waterlillies are nice too center detail on the first nice but the shadow's spoils it a bit but the shadow detail on the 2nd becomes a real feature.
DebT

[DanielA]

The first two are really lovely in my opinion, the last two have suffered due to the lack of access to the lotus.

Thanks.
The first two were the ones I had very little access to. I would have liked to get some shots from above.
The second two I actually had easier access, but I was juggling too much photo gear to do it safely.

Agree it a real bugger that they can be hard to access - need to take a long hook to turn the flower heads towards the lense.

That would be useful.

Waterlillies are nice too center detail on the first nice but the shadow's spoils it a bit but the shadow detail on the 2nd becomes a real feature.

Thanks. I think I used a bit of fill flash on the closeup shadow, but not enough. I really needed to be using a bounce card a tripod, but I'm not that dedicated.

Daniel

[Alpha_7]

The first two are really lovely in my opinion, the last two have suffered due to the lack of access to the lotus.

Thanks.
The first two were the ones I had very little access to. I would have liked to get some shots from above.
The second two I actually had easier access, but I was juggling too much photo gear to do it safely.

Ooops! (Sorry).