Cool Lily Flower Pictures images

Lily

Image by Ezra S F
This red and yellow lily is right outside my building. I noticed it the other day, but could only take a picture recently due to the good lighting being present during my office hours.

Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT / Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 mm II

Humboldt's Lily (Lilium humboldtii)

Image by steveberardi
Humboldt's Lily (Lilium humboldtii), California.

The stems of these flowers grow up to five feet tall, and the flowers themselves are pretty big too: the one pictured here was about six inches tall.

I went on a long search for this flower last year, and finally found one in perfect lighting conditions: it had just rained the night before, and there was a thick overcast sky all morning.

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Lily and fly

Image by Reini68
The motif
When we were hiking through the Oetschergraeben, we found this lily. As I love flowers I had to take a picture, even that I didn't have a macro. Without noticing it I managed to catch a fly on this shot as well. This was a funny surprise when we got the pictures back from development.

Technical
Taken with a Canon EOS 100 on Kodak Royal Gold 200. I had to shoot with the 35-105 as I had no macro then, all the other lenses were even worse when closing up. Scanned with Reflecta ProScan 4000 at 3600 dpi. Postproduction only for denoising and automatic color corrections to remove the mask from the negative-film. Even that it seems to be very saturated I didn't make any adjustment to it.

About shooting on negative film
There are three problems when shooting on film compared to shooting digital. First one is related to the fact that it is rather expensive, so you don't make many pictures of the same motive. Second one is that you simply cannot control what you got. You just can guess if the shutterspeed and aperture suits the motive. It is an extremly hard job to do if you can only check the result a few days later, because there is no chance to reshoot. Third problem is related to the scanning process. Even the best films are very grainy compared to digital cameras. Shooting with the 350D at 1600 gives a result that is less noisy than shooting on an ISO 100 film and scanning it. Worse the noise doesn't follow a pattern, so you cannot easily extract it. Therefore scanned pictures are either extremly noisy or if you chose to filter everything out, they are not sharp (and still noisy).

Lily

Image by Brian Smithson (Old Geordie)
Absolutely as shot - a cliched picture but still a favourite.

Picture 043

Image by rohank9
Lilies! I think...