Bearded Iris bits

LordV · Post by **LordV** » Thu May 27, 2010 12:18 am

Some shots of bits of a bearded iris. All 5Dmk2/MPE-65 shots, focus stacked with zerene stacker Using my glass tablemats to slide the camera on.

Brian v.

photosmart42 · Post by **photosmart42** » Thu May 27, 2010 12:35 am

Very nice! I love #2 especially.

Cyclops · Post by **Cyclops** » Thu May 27, 2010 2:41 am

Fabulous pics Brian!

Planapo · Post by **Planapo** » Thu May 27, 2010 2:52 am

All are beautiful, but no. 1 is my favourite here, because of the blue tones and the strict graphics. The brown pattern on white ground in no. 2 remind me of a Sepia cuttle "fish", though.

Do I get this right, Brian, your "glass tablemats" method means you have two glass plates, one lying on top of the other, your camera is sitting on the top one, and then you slide the top glass plate smoothly in small increments over the second plate below?

--Betty

LordV · Post by **LordV** » Thu May 27, 2010 5:30 am

Thanks for the comments

Betty - only one glass table mat - the camera slides rather nicely on the surface even when I'm holding it at angles with just a bit of the camera on the mat.

Brian V.

sonyalpha · Post by **sonyalpha** » Thu May 27, 2010 7:29 am

These have a superb graphics quality Brian.....especially the first shot:

sonyalpha

Aynia · Post by **Aynia** » Thu May 27, 2010 12:43 pm

I really like the third one!

But they are all great.

Charles Krebs · Post by **Charles Krebs** » Thu May 27, 2010 5:35 pm

Wonderful shots Brian. Iris are great subjects.

LordV · Post by **LordV** » Thu May 27, 2010 10:42 pm

Thanks for the comments

Charles always find these irises great for doing highish mag shots but bloody hard for whole flower shots.
Brian v.

morfa · Post by **morfa** » Fri May 28, 2010 1:45 am

I'm with Betty on this one – #1 is my favorite! The radiating petal texture is very nice (in B/W it would probably look a lot like a graphite drawing)

Cyclops · Post by **Cyclops** » Fri May 28, 2010 2:19 am

morfa wrote:I'm with Betty on this one – #1 is my favorite! The radiating petal texture is very nice (in B/W it would probably look a lot like a graphite drawing)

Yes, I could just see that as a contrasty B/W. Would love a crack at it!