When it first comes out it's very sinister. These translucent green pods form and you can see the actual flower all whiskery and furled up inside. When it finally breaks through the pod it just keeps growing longer and longer and longer
...finally these magnificent flowers are the end result. : )
I used a Nikon F401 which I've had for years. Like you I really want to get into digital, but I just don't know where to start. There's far too much choice, and a lot of them still seem very overpriced!
I wanted to find something that provided a lot of contrast. : )
There's a bit of photoshop action going on in the last shot: if you look really closely you'll see a sort of 'crosshatching' / sketch effect. (It's the first time I've ever used a photoshop filter successfully, so gimme some room 'cos I want to brag ; P !) It's really helped to lift the entire picture. I thought I'd try this since it's one of those traditional still life subjects that botanists use for their hand drawn illustrations.
The smell is really difficult to describe. You would think it'd smell lemony to look at it, but no. The best parallel I can think of is when you walk past the perfume counters in a department store, and there's some sort of 'Opium' type scent on the air. It's fresher/ cleaner than that but definitely very heady. And because it's so hard to pinpoint you find you keep sticking your nose down it to try and work it out!
I wouldn't diss a filter being used if it had a reason - not just because its a filter, aka too many uni/highschool students believing art is in the right filter pre-set to create and base a whole image at.
I know the scent completely - Describing the smell of a Queen of the Night flower is much the same - would love to bottle that stuff but it only lasts the evening of its bloom and would be hard to extract.
The icon describes how I feel at the moment - the image was from the Royal Show here in perth, probably the 3-4th day in and the sheep expo room-whatzit was hot, could imagine thats what most of the animals where thinking when asked by the humans to perform and look cute hahaha
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It's also extremely large! - take a look at the rest of the photos:
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perhaps it is related. Brugmansia are toxic, and seem to have a lot of folklore attached to them. I just grew it out of curiosity. : )
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...finally these magnificent flowers are the end result. : )
I used a Nikon F401 which I've had for years. Like you I really want to get into digital, but I just don't know where to start. There's far too much choice, and a lot of them still seem very overpriced!
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It's a very alumineeeum coloured day outside today, actually: cold white and steely grey. Very wintry.
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There's a bit of photoshop action going on in the last shot: if you look really closely you'll see a sort of 'crosshatching' / sketch effect. (It's the first time I've ever used a photoshop filter successfully, so gimme some room 'cos I want to brag ; P !) It's really helped to lift the entire picture. I thought I'd try this since it's one of those traditional still life subjects that botanists use for their hand drawn illustrations.
The smell is really difficult to describe. You would think it'd smell lemony to look at it, but no. The best parallel I can think of is when you walk past the perfume counters in a department store, and there's some sort of 'Opium' type scent on the air. It's fresher/ cleaner than that but definitely very heady. And because it's so hard to pinpoint you find you keep sticking your nose down it to try and work it out!
That icon makes me laugh. : )
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I know the scent completely - Describing the smell of a Queen of the Night flower is much the same - would love to bottle that stuff but it only lasts the evening of its bloom and would be hard to extract.
The icon describes how I feel at the moment - the image was from the Royal Show here in perth, probably the 3-4th day in and the sheep expo room-whatzit was hot, could imagine thats what most of the animals where thinking when asked by the humans to perform and look cute hahaha
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