Tag: flowers
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The Flowers of Brunswick East (2)
Following on from my first photos of an evening walk around my neighbourhood. This is what I said last time: Gorgeous soft light abounded. However, I’m a little off my game. Handheld, the light was a little low in places, and with my frozen shoulder, I am not so good at minimising camera shake at…
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Opened Pink and Yellow Tulips
After this week’s RegularRandom, where I showed you my shots of closed tulips, I thought I would share with you the shots from when they’d finally opened up, seven days later! I simply adore how paper thin this pink tulip is when backlit with natural light. x desleyjane
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The Flowers of Brunswick East (1)
Daylight Savings has arrived in beautiful Melbourne, and we are one month into Spring. The sun doesn’t set until 7:30 and it’s getting later every day. That means we have beautiful sunshine for so much longer in the evenings. Last night, I was able to leave work at 5 (!!) and I was home by…
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Five Minutes with Closed Tulips
Welcome again to #RegularRandom where we: choose a subject or a scene spend five minutes photographing it – no more! try to not interfere with the subject, instead see it from many angles, look through something at it, change the light that’s hitting it have fun! tag your post #regularrandom and ping back to this post…
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Petal Details
These photos are part of the shoot with the Lizzianthus from my most recent #RegularRandom post. The first two above are the same shot, just cropped and edited slightly differently. These next three, I love. They are all separate shots. I love the sharp focus in such a shadow depth of field. Macro is my…
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Unusual
Weekly Photo Challenge: Unusual You know I love macro. And from a recent session shooting a bouquet of flowers, I focussed in on some unopened irises. Even though they didn’t open, I still find them beautiful. And seeing those blue-veined petals up close with macro, makes for an interesting series of shots, don’t you think?…
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Five Minutes with Flowers (Macro) – RegularRandom
Welcome again to another RegularRandom where we: choose a subject or a scene spend five minutes photographing it – no more! try to see it from many angles, look through something at it, change the light that’s hitting it have fun! tag your post #regularrandom and ping back to this post This week, it’s a…
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Launching Pixel Sisters Studio
I am so excited to share this post with you all!!! So in amongst our real jobs and our actual lives, Julie and I have been very busy preparing for the launch of our creative photography workshops business. We are called Pixel Sisters Studios and we are hosting photography workshops in a large studio space…
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Regular Random – Five Minutes with Orange Tulips
Hello and welcome to RegularRandom – sorry for my absence. I was busy finishing one job and starting another one. It’s a total career transition and huge, but it’s been a lot of fun. If you would like to join in, here’s how: choose an object or scene spend just 5 minutes shooting it, trying…
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Regular Random – Five minutes with a Posy Jar
I picked up this stunning Posy Jar from a florist (Art Stems on Lygon) near me and spent a very long time photographing it inside my pop up studio. For this weeks #RegularRandom I chose a 5 minute window of shots for this post. If you’d like to join in, here’s what we do: choose…
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Olympus Macro Comparison – 30mm vs 60mm #RegularRandom
#regularrandom #regularrandom #regularrandom #regularrandom #regularrandom The lovely Jude from The Earth Laughs in Flowers asked if I had compared my two Olympus macro lenses. I recently got the 30mm macro lens after having used the 60mm macro for the last few years. I thought it was a great opportunity to compare the two lenses via our RegularRandom challenge, where…
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Mums, Gerberas and Baby’s Breath
A life update is required, it’s been so long and so much has happened, but today instead I want to share with you some macro magic with flowers because I’ve missed doing this so much. I put together this bouquet for the new years holidays, it’s pink and pretty and I wanted some flowers to…
Musings of a Frequent Flying Scientist 