Bright flowers stare into the inky black void

White chickweed flowers on a black background.

Today has been so much better than yesterday that I’ve actually had the energy to take, sort and post photos to Flickr, and get a blog post up. Go me! Flowers (and some bracken) on a black background. Produced by putting black card behind the flowers, angling it so the background is as dark as possible (mostly cloudy day helped), and then tweaking the brightness and contrast a bit to make it properly back in post-processing. The tricky part is getting it so the background is dark enough to make editing the editing for impact worthwhile. There are nearly thirty of these, so head on over to Flickr if you’d like to see more.

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Changing it up a little bit with foliage photography

Photography of oak leaves

No flowers in this picture set for a change (there are some in the batch I took today, find ’em on Flickr). Taking photos of leaves when it’s windy is pretty frustrating, I had so many blurry shots because the wind whipped up at the wrong moment. Indoor photography tends not to have this problem, so I might need to think about looking at some challenges to branch out a bit into other subjects.

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