A walk in the garden

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A walk in the garden

Postby J.Davis on Sat Sep 26, 2009 12:24 am

Out and about with the Tamron 90 Macro.
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Re: A walk in the garden

Postby DebT on Sat Sep 26, 2009 7:20 am

nice collection John,
#1 looks a little soft compared to the others but nice full frame position , Love #2 &3 the centers are sharp as with interesting detail and the colour contrast against the pink adds wow, the rose is a nice sharp shot but I don't find it as interesting
I'd be inclined to crop 3 square and tidy up the damaged petal just to show up the main flower and make the most of the geometry
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Re: A walk in the garden

Postby J.Davis on Sat Sep 26, 2009 10:51 am

Thanks for the comments Deb.
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Re: A walk in the garden

Postby Killakoala on Sun Sep 27, 2009 9:18 am

You have a lovely garden. Or maybe it's your wonderful photos that make it look good. Really nice work. I'm not normally interested in photos of flowers, but yours are great and I'm glad I looked..
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Re: A walk in the garden

Postby aim54x on Sun Sep 27, 2009 11:42 am

Great images there John. I love the composition and the sharpness....I'll have to double check the colour as currently they look a bit too saturated to me (could be Google Chrome or my monitor). BTW you are right, the D60 delivers very saturated colours...I have realised this now that I have got one for myself
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Re: A walk in the garden

Postby Matt. K on Sun Sep 27, 2009 5:54 pm

Those last 2 images....WOW! They would look fabulous as very large prints and framed....hanging on a gallery wall. Powerful images!
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Re: A walk in the garden

Postby zafra52 on Sun Sep 27, 2009 6:40 pm

Beautiful images! It's hard to pick which is best, perhaps they all are!
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Re: A walk in the garden

Postby LaurieE on Sun Sep 27, 2009 10:19 pm

great colors with nice composition!
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Re: A walk in the garden

Postby stubbsy on Sat Oct 03, 2009 1:07 pm

John

These are all fine images, but #3 is a cracker. Great detail on the flower. So sharp I could cut myself.
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Re: A walk in the garden

Postby MatthewRoberts on Wed Oct 14, 2009 8:42 pm

Marvelously wonderful - almost surreal. What a treasure to find!

Reminds me of a saying - "You can never have too many flowers"
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