UnkleFrank
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Elyzabeth
September 16, 2014
Breath taking. The colors, the veins and details and of course, the hearts!
KayBrewer
December 04, 2014
Woohoo! Finalist in Creative Textures contest!!! Yea, Unk! So so deserved! (got enough exclamation points for ya? - I get carried away with them - - -)
KayBrewer
February 24, 2015
I'm so happy for my Unkle! Won People's Choice in Shapes in Nature contest. You da Man!
UnkleFrank
February 24, 2015
I would like to thank everyone for your considerations on my awards. It is greatly appreciated. :)
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Being an avid gardener, I often take photos of my blooming flowers. We also have window boxes with various plants in them This year we had purple leaved potato vines growing on the sides of the boxes. I couldn't resist capture the unique colors of their leaves.Time
If I remember correctly, it was early afternoon.Lighting
Being early afternoon, the sun was beginning to shade it's self from the front yard. I set my camera for f/2.8, ISO 100, exposure 1/60 with maual focus.Equipment
I use a Sony a65, a Tamron Di SPAF 90mm f/2.8 Macro lens. I shot this image hand held.Inspiration
I was going back into the house after shooting some of my flower blooms and happened to look at the vine and how tightly the leaves had woven themselves into each other and how the green and purple tones were so overwhelming. I had to take some shots.Editing
I used Lightroom to bump up the contrast a little.In my camera bag
My Sony usually has my favorite lens, the Macro Tamron attached, as it works very well with other types of photos I shoot. I also have a few 20 year old 35mm Minolta lenses. I'm lucky that Sony chose to keep the same mounting hardware as the old Minolta lenses. They cost just a fraction of what the current Sony and Zeiss lenses cost. The lenses were manufactured with excellent ground glass that Minolta ground a assembled themselves, feeling that they could produce some fine lenses. I own Minoltas in 50mm f/1.7, my second favorite lens, 70-200mm f/4.5, 135mm f/2.8, 100-300mm f/4.5, and a very nice 35-70 f/1 macro lens. I also have a couple tripods and a newly acquired monopod.Feedback
I believe anyone can capture these kinds of photos with practice and perseverance. I have been very lucky to find a very good friend on VB that has taken me under his wing and showed me the right path of manual settings and the importance of shooting in RAW, also the finer points of Lightroom. For that I have much graditude for his lessons. As far as shooting, read, learn what you read, and practice. Thank you all very much.