Every body's doing it

[Mr Darcy]

I rather like the way the top of the cut off tulip is continued in a different colour at the bottom.

[the foto fanatic]

Wow!

Love the first

And no problems with the plagiarism!

[biggerry]

sweet light on the first Greg, the image feels a bit flat due to the studio like lighting, maybe a softer source? other than that it is a wow image.

[sirhc55]

Greg, what can I say - bloody brilliant

[Reschsmooth]

Awesome, Greg. Would you please describe your lighting set up? And is the background simply the sky?

[Mr Darcy]

I hate to disappoint you all, but the lighting is simply available light. Late afternoon. About 17:00. Sunset was 17:39 but it was well and truly behind the trees by then, so the sky was my softbox. Not sure how to get a softer light than that.
The background in the first is simply the tarp that covers our pizza table (it would be a Barbecue table but we have a pizza oven not a BBQ)
In the second it was just the grass. I would NEVER describe it as lawn.

Both taken with the 500mm Mirror reflex so no prizes for guessing the aperture was f/8
The first was 1/250 ISO400 the second was 1/15 ISO 400
It is a great lens but focus is so, so critical.

[the foto fanatic]

It is a great lens but focus is so, so critical.

Yep. So is the bokeh - you have done well to avoid those donuts that OOF highlights produce in reflex lenses.

[Mr Darcy]

It is a great lens but focus is so, so critical.

Yep. So is the bokeh - you have done well to avoid those donuts that OOF highlights produce in reflex lenses.

The trick is to avoid any specular highlights.

[aim54x]

Nice stuff!!