Your flower photos - please share! :-)

[no-X]

Ok, we have many threads with pet photos, 3D pictures, rain pictures, your best pictures, but no one intended for flower pictures.

Please share!


Here is my bunch...

1. S-M-C 50/1.4 (f/1.4)


2. MC Pancolar 80/1.8 (f/1.8 )


3. Helios-40-2 85/1.5 (f/1.5)


4. Helios-44-3 MC 58/2 (f/2)


5. Distagon 25/2.8 (f/2.8 )


6. Volna-9 MC 50/2.8 (f/2.8 )


7. Kodak Meniscus 90mm (WO)


8. Volna-9 MC 50/2.8 (f/2.8 )


9. Macro Lanthar 125/2.5


10. Macro Lanthar 125/2.5


11. Meogon 60/5.6 (f/5.6)


12. Trioplan V 100/2.8 (f/2.8 )


13. S-M-C 50/4 (f/4)


14. Macro Lanthar 125/2.5


15. Auto Takumar 35/2.3


16. Night Primoplan 80/1.9 (f/1.9)


17. Ernemann Kinostigmat 11cm


18. Ernemann Kinostigmat 11cm

[Xpres]

An excellent bunch! Mine has already withered in comparison and will have to be replaced.

[tobbsman]

Fantastic set of flowers.

Night Prioplan rocks


Cheers
Tobias

[xjjohnno]

very beautiful pictures there.
One in my collection I quite like taken using an AF lens but with a Raynox diopter so I had to use the ultimate manual focus technique is focussing by controllimg my physical distance from the subject is this one. The same day coming home from where I shot this pic I ended up with a broken wrist thanks to a little motor bike accident.

[tobbsman]

I did this today with my new SMC K50/1.4.





Cheers
Tobias

[no-X]

Thanks!

xjjohnno: Sorry to hear this. Hope you are OK now

Tobias: Very unusual and interesting!

[magnet-2009]

Mmm perfect but tell me what stuff is Meogon 60/5.6?

I think that Meogon gave the better result.

[no-X]

Meogon 60/5.6 is an old enlarger lens (M39 thread). I got it together with a set of misc. lenses. I searched some info and according some websites it's legendary and very reputable lens. So I tried it for macro shooting and it's really avesome. Great colors, great sharpnes, great bokeg, no CA. What more could I want?

http://forum.mflenses.com/meopta-meogon-60-5-6-m39-t13536.html

[magnet-2009]

Thanks no-x.

[supahmario]

tobbsman, this a forum for photography, not for painting!

in earnest,... what did you do to get this great picture? did you do any postprocessing?

[supahmario]

@no-x:

i am impressed of #1, 2, 6, 15 & 16.

especialy the leaf in #15!!!... it incredibly pops out and nearly looks like made of plastic!

[poilu]

wow! great nice flowers set! and we still have to see the Asian ones

[no-X]

supahmario: Thank you. As for the #15, it was taken at the beginning of spring, the leave was fresh and covered by some kind of natural wax. I used extension ring, Auto Tak 35/2.3 doesn't support macro focusing

poilu: yes, I'm looking forward to see some exotic ones

[tobbsman]

@Supahmario

[Gurdie]

Lets try a different approach - all shots wide open.

Lilacs with Nikkor 35/1.4 AI-S and K-1 ring


Apple flower with Nikkor 35/1.4 AI-S and K-1 ring


Maple with Micro-Nikkor 105/4 AI-S


Globe flower (Trollius europaeus) with Micro-Nikkor 105/4 AI-S


Leopard's Bane (Doronicum Orientale) with Nikkor 28/2 AI and K-1 ring

[kds315*]

Gailardia:

Tetrachromatic vision image (UV+B+G+R):


and the "normal shot" (B+G+R):



and just some normal Peony shot:

[Laurence]

Maybe not my BEST flower images, but these were handy to find:

Tulip Petals
Revueflex 35mm camera
SMC Pentax 100/4 Macro
Velvia




Blue Pansy
Sigma SD-14
SMC Pentax 100/4 Macro
Velvia




Bleeding Hearts on a String
Pentax 645
Pentax-A 55mm with extension tubes
Provia




Sugar-Frost on Salal Leaves
Yashica Mat 124 with close-up attachment
Velvia

Frosted Salal

[GrahamNR17]

I have not yet mastered flower photography, but I am trying many different techniques with limited gear. My efforts so far:

A fly landed on the fir tree but couldn't get close enough. It had a droplet of water attached to its face. Kodak P&S digi


The next two are when the leaves started to shoot on my Acer tree earlier this year. Kodak P&S digi




I took this today. These flowers appear on a bush in my garden, but I have no idea what they are. The petals look like scrunched paper. Praktica BCX, 50/1.8, Kodak Color Plus 200, home dev.


I tried to take this photo especially for this thread this afternoon. I was limited with a standard lens on the camera and cheap film. I think I need a proper macro lens. Praktica BCX, 50/1.8, Kodak Color Plus 200, home dev.


Ok, pretty crappy, but I'm getting there... slowly

[Katastrofo]

Wow, some great shots posted! I've posted this one before, a
test shot using a +2 diopter on Ricohflex Dia L:

Portra 400NC

and these are from the Fuji F10:

[Orio]

[Katastrofo]

Thanks, Orio, I kind of like the 3D effect in that one, and from a P&S!
(Attila deleted my avatar by mistake so I uploaded it again. I don't think
he did it by accident, but trying to beautify the forum!)

[Schnauzer]

Some absolutely beautiful flowers here from several.

[my_photography]

Quite some nice variety of flowers by fellow members.

[tobbsman]

But this one popps out of the frame too !

Cheers
Tobias

[Katastrofo]

Thanks, Tobbs, the F10 has been quite a surprise. I didn't save any of
the large files to the above pics, but here is one I just worked up that I
forgot to do with the rest:



This was late afternoon.