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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Moab Man" data-source="post: 446237" data-attributes="member: 11881">The first one was natural light through a fogged glass window. Camera was hand held. Combined it limited what I could do with the depth of field. In the editing, because the camera captured too much detail, I used a blur with masking to soften up the image. I have a love hate with the picture. For my second attempt I wanted more in focus when looking down the throat of the flower. To do this one I headed out to the studio with my strobes and a tripod. This allowed me to increase the depth of field, increase the light I needed and slow down the shutter. To edit I cropped down on the "mouth", did a little tweaking with the white balance, and finalized with a softening of the image. Again, the detail captured just didn't look good. My photographing the flowers isn't a competition thing with Wendy, but a curiosity of the subject matter. Flowers are not my thing, but there is something to be learned in everything we shoot. Wendy and I discussed the first photo today and her comment was that she wished more of the mouth was in focus. I agreed. So tonight I decided to try and tackle this again. What I like best in Wendys flower photos is the softness. It's not too much, not too little, but just right. And I give her credit, flowers can be tough to shoot. Her great love of flowers really serves her well in shooting them.As for me, I will continue to shoot them and get her feedback to improve my flower photography.</blockquote>

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