Showing posts with label Purple. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Purple. Show all posts
Thursday, June 14, 2012
Osteospermum (Boneseed)
The daisy-like flowers consists of disc florets and ray florets. Flower heads usually
solitary on short peduncles, radiate, the rays curling back at night. Some
species produce prussic or hydrocyanic acid and are implicated in stock
poisoning. The vernacular name, bietnou is one of the very few Khoisan names
still in use.
Information:
Manning, J (2008:
392) Field Guide to Wild Flowers of South
Africa, 1st ed. Cape Town: Struik Nature
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Friday, April 6, 2012
Walk About
On days when I feel creative I like to walk around in our home, garden, neighbourhood,
etc. and photograph anything that looks
interesting. I also love to photograph flowers in our garden especially when
there are new ones in bloom.... and this is why I love Flora and Close-Up!
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
A Day of Romance
Today is Valentine's Day, which we exchanged candy, flowers and gifts between loved ones.
A quote by John Lennon just brought my love for photographing flowers and Valentine's Day together: "Love is the flower you've got to let grow."
We had so many flowers in our house that I felt creative and started to photograph the different flowers with a new twist in editing, giving them a more vintage feel. Hope you like the new style and please do comment.
A quote by John Lennon just brought my love for photographing flowers and Valentine's Day together: "Love is the flower you've got to let grow."
We had so many flowers in our house that I felt creative and started to photograph the different flowers with a new twist in editing, giving them a more vintage feel. Hope you like the new style and please do comment.
Friday, June 10, 2011
CRIT 3 - 9 June 2011
Flora Photography:
This image I took at the Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens. I photographed this flower because of the backlighting and it showed how hairy the flower is.
This I took in my mother's garden. I wanted to show the neutral colours of the plant and that such simple colours could look so beautiful.
This flower I also photographed in my mother's garden. This is a pink flower and also very delicate. I decided to make this image black & white because you can see all the veins in the petals of the flower but when the image was in colour you couldn't see the veins and thats what made this image striking to me.
Close-Up Photography:
When it comes to my close-up images I like to photograph objects with texture even when it is something simple. In this image the blue and red popped out to me and that with such striking colours there is rust in-between...texture!
This was a tricky thing to photograph because the wire heart was hanging in the tree and it was spinning around in circles.
When I saw this metal rusted suitcase at a antique shop in Howick I just had to photographed especially that it is rusted and rusted objects is best for black & white images and if you want to show texture.
General:
We had to photograph Urban Decay. I found a dark room in a building on the Bluff area that had chipped paint, mould, etc. on the walls so I knew I had to photograph it. Because of the room being so dark with one tiny window I used a 2 second exposure. When I started to edit the image it didn't scream urban decay so I used HDR toning which gave me the effect that I wanted.
This image I took at the Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens. I photographed this flower because of the backlighting and it showed how hairy the flower is.
This I took in my mother's garden. I wanted to show the neutral colours of the plant and that such simple colours could look so beautiful.
This flower I also photographed in my mother's garden. This is a pink flower and also very delicate. I decided to make this image black & white because you can see all the veins in the petals of the flower but when the image was in colour you couldn't see the veins and thats what made this image striking to me.
Close-Up Photography:
When it comes to my close-up images I like to photograph objects with texture even when it is something simple. In this image the blue and red popped out to me and that with such striking colours there is rust in-between...texture!
When I saw this metal rusted suitcase at a antique shop in Howick I just had to photographed especially that it is rusted and rusted objects is best for black & white images and if you want to show texture.
General:
We had to photograph Urban Decay. I found a dark room in a building on the Bluff area that had chipped paint, mould, etc. on the walls so I knew I had to photograph it. Because of the room being so dark with one tiny window I used a 2 second exposure. When I started to edit the image it didn't scream urban decay so I used HDR toning which gave me the effect that I wanted.
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