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! Smile

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 · Expire: 2014-10-28

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

tobbsman · Joined: 25 Jul 2008 Posts: 2578 Location: Austria

Fantastic set of flowers.

Night Prioplan rocks Smile

Cheers
Tobias

xjjohnno · Expire: 2011-11-18

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 · Joined: 25 Jul 2008 Posts: 2578 Location: Austria

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

Cheers
Tobias

no-X · Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2009 12:09 pm Post subject:

Thanks!

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

Tobias: Very unusual and interesting!

magnet-2009 · Joined: 22 Apr 2009 Posts: 505 Location: Greece, Athens

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

I think that Meogon gave the better result.

no-X · Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2009 1:05 pm Post subject:

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? Very Happy

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

magnet-2009 · Joined: 22 Apr 2009 Posts: 505 Location: Greece, Athens

Thanks no-x. Wink

supahmario · Joined: 18 Mar 2009 Posts: 615 Location: Berlin, Germany

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

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

supahmario · Joined: 18 Mar 2009 Posts: 615 Location: Berlin, Germany

@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 · Expire: 2019-08-29

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

no-X · Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2009 2:26 pm Post subject:

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 Smile

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

tobbsman · Joined: 25 Jul 2008 Posts: 2578 Location: Austria

@Supahmario

Gurdie · Expire: 2013-02-20

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* · Expire: 2021-03-09

Gailardia:

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

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

and just some normal Peony shot:

Laurence · Expire: 2016-06-19

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 · Expire: 2012-09-06

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 Embarassed

Katastrofo · Expire: 2013-11-19

Wow, some great shots posted! Shocked

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 · Expire: 2012-12-04

Katastrofo · Expire: 2013-11-19

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!) Laughing

Schnauzer · Expire: 2012-03-08

Some absolutely beautiful flowers here from several.

my_photography · Expire: 2016-12-25

Quite some nice variety of flowers by fellow members.

tobbsman · Joined: 25 Jul 2008 Posts: 2578 Location: Austria

But this one popps out of the frame too !

Cheers
Tobias

Katastrofo · Expire: 2013-11-19

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.