{"id":3021,"date":"2012-10-07T20:51:18","date_gmt":"2012-10-08T03:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/?p=3021"},"modified":"2012-10-07T20:51:56","modified_gmt":"2012-10-08T03:51:56","slug":"backyard-flowers-wk-41","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/07\/backyard-flowers-wk-41\/","title":{"rendered":"Backyard Flowers — wk 41"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week we had a cold front that brought frost, snow and rain. A walk though the garden today showed many plants had suffered from the frost. I was greeted by this cheerful yellow rose.<\/p>\n

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Yellow Rose<\/p><\/div>\n

The cosmos flowers did not fare so well outdoors. Earlier in the week, Angela had cut some flowers and brought them indoors. After setting up the camera indoors, I examined several cosmos flowers in the vase. This pink flower had some really fine veins in the petals that I managed to capture in the following image.<\/p>\n

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Pink Cosmos, No 2<\/p><\/div>\n

I found another pink flower and made several exposures, adjusting the focus point between each exposure. After stacking the images, we get a really deep depth of focus that shows the tips of the stamens down to petals. In this image, we can see individual pollen grains on the petals.<\/p>\n

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Pink Cosmos<\/p><\/div>\n

In the vase were some white cosmos flowers. This image shows the limited depth of field with a macro lens. The petals are soft and out of focus, with striations radiating out from the center of the flower.<\/p>\n

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White Cosmos, No 2<\/p><\/div>\n

I found another white cosmos flower. This one also got the focus stacking treatment with several exposures.<\/p>\n

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White Cosmos<\/p><\/div>\n

I like the detail that is revealed in the center of the flower. I the image above, the black rods are the seeds that have just started to form.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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