Wednesday, April 22, 2009

All alone



This is one flower out of many on the tree right outside my front door.
{CC}

12 comments:

Candace said...

VERY beautiful, April!!!! I love it!! I don't have any CC, it looks perfect to me.

Mindy said...

Beautiful!!! I love the softness of it, and the almost painted feeling. Well done, April!!

Brittney said...

Wow that is breathtaking! I love the imprinting effect it has going on. Beautiful! It's a shot I could look at/study for quite awhile. What were your camera settings on this?

Katy said...

Incredible, i'm loving this picture... how'd you do the background, it's stunning!!!! Really, i'm taken!

B-Blogit said...

In a good way you could write a motivating statement under this and sell it! Just great!

Jackie said...

VeryVery good! so beautfiful and light. I love the bkgrd...must tell how you did it :) No cc here, its gorgeous!

Melanie said...

I love how you were able to focus on only that "one". the soft blurs in the background really set the stage for the one you shot. Great job!

Corynn said...

I love it. It is so calming. and I love the off-centered look. I feel like I see a lot of photographers just plop a flower right in the middle of their frame and call it art. This is beautiful!

Rachel Holloway said...

THIS IS STUNNING April! ABSOLUTELY beautiful. I would love to know what settings and lens you used!

The only CC I have would be that I wish the left edges of the flower were a little more defined...just a tad more so it would look a tiny bit more separate.

It is a gorgeous picture!

AprilF said...

Thanks for all the feedback!

My settings were f/1.8, 1/2000, ISO200. I used my 50mm 1.8- it has the widest AP of any of my other lenses.

Katy- it was opening up the aperture all the way that causes the awesome bokeh. I WISH I had a lens that went to 1.2!

Mindy said...

April, I'm so with you on that! I just got my 1.8, and now I'm thinking, Oh, what I could do with a 1.2! (Does it ever end? ;)

Janelle said...

I really like the way you've framed this (literally). It looks like it could be the cover of a set of notecards or a Successories poster.