A Photo a Week Challenge: Brighten Up Your Day
Nancy thought we needed some brightness in our lives. After the horrific past 7 weeks where an entire four months of winter was compressed into less than two months, I totally agree.
The sunflower is pretty much the way it came out of the camera. It was shot on a very bright day with a very good lens, very close. I sharpened it, cropped it a bit, but this is what it looked like. Amazing flower, isn’t it? As if it has sunshine inside, trying to escape!
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Categories: #Flowers, #Photography, Challenges, Light and Lights, Nature, Summer
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I love sunflowers- they are my go to flowers when things are dreary and bleak- they always brighten everything up!
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And they are so BIG. The king of flowers 🙂
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Such a bright and cheerful photo. Just what I need today.
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It’s cold, rainy, and very gray today. Works for me, too.
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Lovely burst of colour, simply beautiful.
Leslie
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A piece of living sunshine 🙂
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WOW! No kidding, it’s as if the sunflower captured the sunshine! Love the clarity of the macro lens! 😀
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It’s actually a portrait lens, but it shoots very close and very sharp. And it really helps that sunflowers are huge 🙂
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OHHH. I don’t know what a portrait lens is. From this photo, it sure seems to be capable of extreme clarity!
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Optically, portrait lenses give you very shallow depth of field to make the background into bokeh. They are almost always in the 75 to 135mm range — the most flattering lenses for shooting faces — but capable of very tight focus. They also tend to make everything look like art. It’s the most useful (and fast!) lens I have.
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It’s been so very long since I shot with my Canon AE-1 and the various lenses I had. My favorite was a type of Macro lens that could perform beyond just Macro tasks. I had a favorite f-stop for shooting the kids and pets, but I don’t even remember what that was anymore. It was fun while it lasted.
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Times change. My Olympus PENs do most of the job, but I have a couple of others that are perfect for other types of shooting. I’m retired. I have time.
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Wow!! Very bright and clear in details.
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Thanks. The extremely bright sunlight helped a LOT 🙂
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I’m not crazy about sunflowers, but I’m crazy about this picture!!!
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Thank you. Sunflowers look like aliens from another planet, but they are very attractive to bees and are a flower with many uses. And it’s great photographing the because they are so BIG 🙂 And bright!
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What a beauty… superb image, Marilyn 🙂
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Thank you! Right light, right camera, right lens 🙂
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Georgous flower. So bright and fresh. Thanks for joining the challenge and brightening my day, Marilyn!
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You asked for bright and I don’t have anything brighter than this 🙂 Thanks, Nancy. Your challenges are always fun.
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I love sunflowers! And that is a wonderful picture of a great flower! I’m thinking of growing some once I get some land to grow flowers… I hear that chickens like them too.
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It’s hard to keep them from falling over and breaking, but if you stake them and have plenty of sunshine, go for it. They are spectacular and the bees love them.
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