I have a very small patch of these wildflowers, Gaillardia, aka Indian Blanket, next to the house. The deer love them and it is always a race to photograph them before the deer devour the blossoms!
My one filter is Topaz Simplify 4, sketch.
Good Morning, Miss Sunshine
I have a very small patch of these wildflowers, Gaillardia, aka Indian Blanket, next to the house. The deer love them and it is always a race to photograph them before the deer devour the blossoms!
My one filter is Topaz Simplify 4, sketch.
interesting filter. my personal pref would be not so much a stark contrast between the flower and the background. Maybe lessen the blur just a bit, but that's just a personal pref. Like what the filter did to the Gaillardia. one of my favorite flowers, too.
Nancy, I love Gaillardia and I like the Simplify filter on this one. Colors are great. My deer love to eat everything that I love to photograph so I ended up putting everything I like to shoot into a small garden with a deer fence and letting them have the rest.It ends up being a pretty good arrangement.
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Hazel, I always fuss over the background vs the foreground trying to get just the right balance in images like this. With all the flowers being the same color I didn't want the main flower to be lost in the sea of yellow. But you have a good point and it is the sea of yellow that is the impression I want viewers to see & feel.
Cheryl, I have almost totally given up with the deer and the chipmunks! I placed picnic table benches over these flowers in hopes the deer would go elsewhere, but next year I may get tougher!
Beautiful buttery yellow. I understand why the deer are attracted to them. Nice treatment. With regard to deer, I bought some arctic daisies as I was told that deer despise them. Of course they eat them first!
Last edited by Mitch Carucci; 07-11-2013 at 03:25 PM.
Mitch, thanks and ha!ha! on some nursery person thinking they know what a deer does and does not eat!
Lovely composition and selective focus on the one flower. The blacks work for me. I'd like to punch up the colors a bit. Nice work.
I spray my deer-susceptible flowers with organic Deer Fence . In the back of our acreage where we are planting small native trees and shrubs, we use wire fencing. My small veggie garden is surrounded by chicken wire.
Last edited by Anita Bower; 07-14-2013 at 04:27 PM.
Somehow I missed this before. Too busy making and working on new photos the past 10 days I guess. Very nice filter work and colors. I like the sketch effect.
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