After a day of painting our kitchen, it was time to head out for some fun finding sunflowers. A few weeks ago, I scouted potential locations. Making my way to the field, I found this flower. After setting up on tripod, the sun hid behind a cloud, providing nice shadow free lighting for a few minutes.
Working the scene, I made some other images after the sun re-appeared. There was slight breeze that was blowing, so several images were discarded due to movement, leaving this one
For this image, I raised the camera to capture this image with the sunflowers receding into the distance.
Most of the sunflowers face the morning sun, so most of the images are backlit with the afternoon sun. However, I did found one sunflower that faced the setting sun.
There was one spot where I found a group of 5 sunflowers, with petals and leaves backlit by the sun.
For a different viewpoint, I re-positioned the camera so that the sun was directly behind the sunflower and re-shot to create this image.
Soon after, the sun dipped behind a cloud, put the sunflowers into the shade. I switched lenses and made a series if images looking down the alley behind these flowers.
After the sun dipped behind the horizon, I found another sunflower, now in the shade. The main stem of a sunflower is covered by hairs. Also, the leaves have a really interesting ribs and texture that I really like to capture.
In this final image, I had to make a sunset shot looking towards the Rocky Mountains. Since we were close to the airport, several aircraft were taking off at sunset. I waited until on airplane had entered the frame for this image.
This was a great day to experience the sunflowers, even though it was another hot summer’s day.
Nice pictures Match.