For Macro Mondays theme "Complementary Colours" natures own colour pallete - green and red.

I’m horrible with plants, but I’ve had these guys since early this year, and they are still hanging on. I thought I better share them with you before they die. :)

TD: f/4, 1/15 sec, ISO 100, @50 mm

For Smile on Saturday's #Flora SOOC theme

With thanks to Maria and the SOS team for encouraging me to post a SOOC image.

Generally, my images have quite a lot of post-processing going on. There's always at least a little tweak that I want to make, to composition, colour, removing distractions etc. I also use editing to draw attention to my subject, as well as enjoying making creative edits (playing with colour or blur etc). I don't think I've ever posted SOOC before.

But I've had a few conversations recently that made me think - do I need to? I'm definitely better at thinking about the image while I'm taking it - looking at the image, deleting those that don't work, adjusting the WB or the composition etc. Plus sitting down to edit is difficult for me at the moment, so 'going' SOOC would definitely be better for me.

Looking at the 5 or 6 images from my archive that I wondered about posting for this theme, I could probably post them as SOOC. But... with most I still see those little tweaks that I would prefer to make that would turn them from decent, interesting images into something closer to the vision I have for them.

This one: I'd turn down the saturation, tone the green a little, and sharpen, as well as focusing the light a little. But I haven't touched it - I promise!

(Sorry, I'm going to shut up soon. But...there were some interesting discussions around what constitutes straight-out-of-camera these days. True - we can choose different picture 'styles' in our camera, choose our aperture or shutter speed settings, choose our WB or even sharpness etc, so we are making conscious choices about the image we take when we take the picture. I think the skill of SOOC is to make these choices with the camera, rather than in the software after the event. I would include cropping with this - you choose your composition & crop when you take the picture, though I appreciate it is so tempting just to tweak slightly. Interesting to ponder this as a subject ...

Also, I note the issue of RAW - I shoot in RAW, and as this was an archive shot, I had to convert it to .jpg in software. Potentially, you could say this is influencing the image. But I think even when a camera is shooting in .jpg, it is making certain adjustments that you just can't avoid, unless you could post the raw image. So I see the RAW conversion to .jpg by my Canon software as akin to the RAW conversion to .jpg by my Canon camera. But always happy to be corrected by those who know far more than me.)

For Smile on Saturday: Reflection in a spoon

Project 365, 2023 Edition: Day 90/365

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Macro Mondays ~ Complementary Colours... small feather and small blue pepper pot.

Tag 216/365 (2019) #HMM Montag, 05.08.2019 Complementary Colours nach Itten

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Once again I was exploring these rock pools on Bamburgh beach, and looking out to the Farne Islands. I really enjoyed the way this gap in the rocks drew my eye towards the distant islands, and how the small pools of water sat by the vast open sea.

It was exploring this which lead me to decide that I would come back for another shoot, specifically to photograph these islands in good light. I will be sharing these very soon.

Smile on Saturday - theme of February 22, 2020: One Word

Love and Peace !!

(two fridge magnets, gifts from my sister ♥ / each 3,5 cm in diameter)

... yes I know, probably the umpteenth 'love' today, but after the events of this week in my country this was the only word that came to my mind (and that I could photograph :))

Happy Smile on Saturday : )

Had a very busy week - trying to catch up ! :)

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Ein Wort - zwei Träume

Liebe und Frieden !!

(zwei Kühlschrankmagneten, Geschenke von meiner Schwester)

Smile on Saturday - Thema am 22. Februar, 2020: 'Ein Wort'

ja ich weiß, bestimmt das zigste 'love' heute, aber nach den Ereignissen dieser Woche war dies das einzige Wort, das mir in den Sinn kam (und das ich fotografieren konnte :))

Einen friedvollen Samstag (Abend) euch allen

#MacroMondays #ComplementaryColours

Franbwaz-Framboos-Hindber-lampone-Gerds-Lampun-Bringebær-Malina-Hallon-himbeere-vadelma-raSber naHmey (the last one is in Klingon…)

The rose is so vibrantly red and the sunlight so intense, I have struggled to get a shot that does it justice. The complementary colours are red and green. This one is from our garden.

Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia Spanish: Palacio de las Artes Reina Sofía; is an opera house and cultural centre in Valencia, Spain. It opened on 8 October 2005; its first opera staging was of Beethoven's Fidelio on 25 October 2006. Tenor and conductor Plácido Domingo has maintained a special relationship with the Palau since its founding and has established a young singers training program there.

Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia is part of City of Arts and Sciences which is designed by Santiago Calatrava

Abstract! Piece of Heliconia.

fresh from our garden, picked from the plant

Complementary Colours is the theme for Macro Mondays, August 5th.

Super tiny paper plane on a sage leaf.

Nearby to Bamburgh is the small seafront village of Beadnell. Early in the morning, the seaweed on around the rockpools was so bright and eye catching I spent all morning exploring the rock pools.

so young and already eroded

fly agaric or fly amanita

Fliegenpilz

[Amanita muscaria]

Macro Mondays - Complementary Colours

Crazy Tuesday theme Complementary Colours

Last minute photo - I forgot to check the theme until today having just returned back from seeing my poorly mum in Devon. Luckily I had popped into the House of Marbles (close to where mum is) to add to my collection of handmade marbles!

Happy Crazy Tuesady! 😄

just a lonely poppy

First shots with the wonderful lightwight Samyang 45mm 1.8 AF

Macro Monday 5.8.2019 "Complementary colours"

Focus stack

A welsh poppy with a water butt as a background, haven’t had much time to go looking for MM options but this was pretty much outside the back door.

Thanks for stopping

Christmas signature is the red and green colors, the red fabric and green thumb drive makes the statement, Ho Ho Ho, in August.

Puzzle keychain, a sort of Rubiks cube.

HaPpY CrAzY Tuesday

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one of my photos I decided not to put in the Macro Mondays group

For Flickr Friday's #purple theme

This is quite obviously (at least, I hope so!) purple! But I've always found it interesting that flowers described as 'blue' are quite often more purpley, as true blues are difficult to find in the floral world.

I don't like to use flowers for 'colour' themes as a rule. But these beautiful 'blue' asters are at their best in my garden at the moment, and they really were lending themselves to a bit of ICM play. Whilst I have been known to add radial blur in processing, this blur is all in camera; created

by trying to hold an off-centre focal point and rotating around it.

Taken with my flektogon, and the vintagey feel slightly enhanced in CEfex, though I did try to minimise impact on the colour. (I held an ND filter over the lens so that I could use a slower shutter speed; i have no idea if it's even possible to get filters for vintage lenses! This works remarkable well but does require a bit of concentration.)

MACRO MONDAY COMPLEMENTARY COLOURS

#MacroMondays

#complementarycolours

Picture with ruler in the first commentbox.

Macro Mondays - Complementary Colours - Monday, August 5 2019

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Looking over to the Farne Islands from the rock pools, I spied this small clump of rocks. I like how they are framed, and based on perspective this fairly unimpressive mound of rocks dwarfs the beautiful sight of the Farne islands out to see.

Für "Crazy Tuesday"

Thema "Complementary Colours" am 15.06.2021.

Have a 😄 HaPpY CrAzY Tuesday 😄

and stay healthy.

Many thanks for all your views, faves and comments.

Complementary colours for Crazy Tuesday.

Cherry toms.

Crazy Tuesday- Complementary Colours

I chose Purple and Yellow for my two colours. This is a Purple Potato Blossom and a member of the Nightshade's Family . Stu planted these last year in the Spring and some of the potatoes were left in the soil over the winter so they came up this year instead of last fall. We call these Volunteers. Nightshade blossoms are pretty distinctive looking. The petals on these flowers also come in white indicating that the potato is a white variety. (Thanks Wes for mentioning Crazy Tuesday)

Redux2019 Macro Mondays

”Knolling” på temat komplementärfärger.

🎨🎨🎨

”Knolling” on theme Complementary Colours.