Morning glory flower

MacroLuv · Post by **MacroLuv** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 10:51 am

Natural lighting.

Camera model Olympus C-770 UZ
Date/time 26.08.2005/12:19:49
Exposure time 1/640 s
F-number f/4
ISO 64
Focal length 10.9 mm

Bruce Williams · Post by **Bruce Williams** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 12:38 pm

Ok Nikola you've got me with this one! I'm mystified, puzzled and intrigued??? Is that pic for real? Come on own up watchya done, howdya do it?

Bruce

rjlittlefield · Post by **rjlittlefield** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 2:42 pm

Bruce Williams wrote:Come on own up watchya done, howdya do it?

I'm betting it's "just" the sun shining through the uncolored tube of the flower. I thought perhaps a bit of surgery might be needed to remove shadow-causing parts, but Google image search on morning glory finds many images with similar lighting. This picture is a gorgeous piece of work, in any case!

--Rik

Ken Ramos · Post by **Ken Ramos** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 4:54 pm

Reminds one of an "event horizon," if that is possibly how one would look, lots of light being sucked in it appears, though I have never been there or done that and don't think the chances of survival would be all that great even if one could, however I did read one time about the possiblity of an exit cone. Nice photograph and lighting.

MacroLuv · Post by **MacroLuv** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 7:36 pm

Thanks folks!

Rik is right as always. Only the Sun was a magician.

beetleman · Post by **beetleman** » Fri Dec 08, 2006 6:29 am

They are hard to photograph because of that hotspot. Insects cannot miss the center of these flowers

MacroLuv · Post by **MacroLuv** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 5:11 pm

beetleman wrote:They are hard to photograph because of that hotspot. Insects cannot miss the center of these flowers

I thought the same before but not hard at all. I'm not sure why?