Grass Flowers Dangling
It is that time of year again. The grasses are flowering like mad... the people with hayfever are suffering, and I am trying to get photos of the teensy tinesy flowers.
I took a LOT of photos of grass flowers this week, and didn't like any of them.
But today's efforts did yield an ok shot. Of course, then I played with the processing of it... but I am including the original below in comments, if you wish to see it.
I don't know the name of the grass type. I do know that a few days ago, this grass head was so covered with flowers, you couldn't even see the green part. But then an enormously heavy rain fell, and all the flowers were knocked off. These flowers are just the ones which grew after the rain!
To get this shot, I attached a 50mm lens, backwards, to the front of my 18-55mm lens. I set my 18-55mm lens on the narrowest aperture it has (f22) and zoomed in as far as I could. Then I stacked three layers of focus together. It turned out passable... still not what I hoped for though!
These little dangling flowers move if you breathe. They vibrate if a truck goes by... they dance for long minutes if there is a train in the distance. If someone is playing their music with the bass too loud, they shake. So it is tricky....
Oh... and (sorry this is so long)... the red bit in the bottom corner was an anomaly of the light and the lens arrangement. But it looked so cool... like a rose... that I left it there just to show it.
Grass Flowers Dangling
It is that time of year again. The grasses are flowering like mad... the people with hayfever are suffering, and I am trying to get photos of the teensy tinesy flowers.
I took a LOT of photos of grass flowers this week, and didn't like any of them.
But today's efforts did yield an ok shot. Of course, then I played with the processing of it... but I am including the original below in comments, if you wish to see it.
I don't know the name of the grass type. I do know that a few days ago, this grass head was so covered with flowers, you couldn't even see the green part. But then an enormously heavy rain fell, and all the flowers were knocked off. These flowers are just the ones which grew after the rain!
To get this shot, I attached a 50mm lens, backwards, to the front of my 18-55mm lens. I set my 18-55mm lens on the narrowest aperture it has (f22) and zoomed in as far as I could. Then I stacked three layers of focus together. It turned out passable... still not what I hoped for though!
These little dangling flowers move if you breathe. They vibrate if a truck goes by... they dance for long minutes if there is a train in the distance. If someone is playing their music with the bass too loud, they shake. So it is tricky....
Oh... and (sorry this is so long)... the red bit in the bottom corner was an anomaly of the light and the lens arrangement. But it looked so cool... like a rose... that I left it there just to show it.