Cool Birth Flowers Pictures images

birth of the next generation

Image by bluecinderella
View On Black
Greetings from my yard in the morning

Desert Rose Setup

Image by nickwheeleroz
Strobist Information:

The flower in this picture is from a Desert Rose plant that my partner bought for me when we first met. Then it was just a tiny little sprig of a plant with a single flower on it. Now it sits by the front door of the house, five and a half feet high, a riot of pink flowers looking like a small tree. Everyone comments on it when they visit and the last seed pod it produced has now given birth to a dozens of tiny little Desert Rose plants that we give away to anyone who wants one.

This picture was inspired by a photography book I am currently reading, 'Studio Photography - essential skills' by John Child. It was the inspiration for the 'Milk and Cookies' picture, as well as 'Decay' and now this. It's a pretty good book, although all the most inspirational pictures are just there to illustrate it and are not actually dissected in the examples. You are therefore left to figure out how they were done from what you have learnt in the exercises (which is no bad thing). Of course, if you are an avid follower of www.strobist.com, you have a pretty good idea where to start already.

For this shot, I placed a couple of small bags of black river stones I picked up from Crazy Clark's (a kind of Australian dollar store) on a baking tray and then poured water over them until the tray was about half full. I picked up a couple of Desert Rose flowers that had fallen off and placed them on the rocks. Finally I gave them a quick squirt with a plant sprayer to get the water drops on them. For the lighting, I used my new home made softbox as the main light, placed behind and slightly angled above the tray. Because I wanted a shallow depth of field on the rocks, I set this to 1/16th power. I also placed two more SB-28's, one in front and one behind the flowers and and used a grid on both of these to focus the light on the flowers. These were set to 1/32 power.

After taking a few test shots, I decided that the picture worked better with a single flower so I picked the best looking one and just used this.

This is one of those pictures where the light set up that you started with, actually gives you what you wanted without having to rethink it. I am not sure if this is a sign that I am getting better at pre-visualising the effects of the lights or if it was just a lucky guess (probably more of the later and considerably less of the former)! :)

After I uploaded the picture to Flickr, I spotted a bit of leaf that had fallen on the rocks near the back and was dragging my eye away from the flower. I loaded the picture up in Paint Shop Pro and cloned it out and then re uploaded the shot. No sooner had I done this than I decided that some light coloured marks on the rocks to the left were doing the same thing. I cloned these out as well which gave me the final picture.

Picture here: Desert Rose

Learn how to light: www.strobist.com

Lotus

Image by bitslice
(Nikon D300/35-70mm@35.0 mm | 1/500s | f4.5 | ISO200 | handheld)

Same series of pictures taken in my house. A lotus. (See Nymphaeaceae family).

Today is a holiday in Thailand. It's Visakha Bucha day, an important day in Buddhism (birth, enlightenment, and passing of Gautama Buddha).

New Birth

Image by sirwiseowl
Camellia buds are in abundance on the tree. Should be a picture in a few days.

flowers in my garden: in sun

Image by Julie70
The first of march, it is costum in Romania, my birth country, to offer for "luck" a small "martisor" so I do offer you this picture from my garden taken yesterday.