This uncommon little flower is located in shady, mossy subalpine, areas. It is about 1/4" wide. The wood nymph has a lily of the valley fragrence.
Canon 20D with a Canon 100mm lens. 1/13 sec. @ F10 (to blur busy pine needle background), ISO 400 and -1/3 EV. Tripod mounted, mirror lockup and a little golden light reflected on it. I did some burning to calm the background.
Beautiful, beautiful job, Joanna! The flower is so perfect but you really took the extra steps to get a great BG as well. It all works perfectly together!
I think fill flash might have given you even more color and detail in the underside of the flower but it's really lovely as presented.
Very nice Joanna. It all starts with an interesting subject and you have one here. I agree that a little fill would help but I like the detail and the background turned out very nice. Sometimes it is just a case of finding that happy medium where you get detail and background you desire.
Hey Joanna, I like it, good comp, details and nice soft BG. I never use flash, but you can add some fill light to the flower with a reflector, I carry a silver/gold reflector that does the trick when a little extra light is needed.
Thanks for your kind remarks, I do use a reflector (from smoked salmon packaging) that has gold/silver sides. However, there was so little light that this is all I could muster! I haven't mastered the fill flash yet, but hope to work on it when I go mushroom shooting soon.