Rock The Shot ~ Floral Still Life Challenge

So my completely random thing that I love to do with my camera is take macro shots of flowers. My father had found a macro attachment for $12 on Amazon that just screws on to my 50mm lens - at first I thought for $12 it is going to be useless. And at first it was. I couldn't figure out for the life of me how to get a picture that wasn't just a complete blur. But I started playing with settings and voila - I suddenly figured out how to get amazing macro shots. So this was my most recent of one of the flowering bushes in our backyard; I had some fun processing it with actions that are usually too heavy or weird colored for portraits, but work perfectly for artistic pictures of flowers. I hope you like it as much as I do. :-)

 

Check out the other entries at Rock The Shot:

 

I Heart Faces - "Framed" Challenge

I wasn't going to enter this one...but then I took Ian to the park this week and decided I should take my camera. As I was going through the pictures, I came across this one and knew I had to enter this. :-)

Favorite Shot of 2012 - Rock the Shot Photo Challenge

I didn't even have to think twice about it - I KNEW this was my favorite shot from 2012. Well, there were several from this set that are my favorite...but I think this one tops them all. :-)

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When the mood strikes...

I was in an "let's play with some pictures and editing tools in Photoshop" mood late last night, and decided this one, which originally had a completely blown out sky (i.e. stark white) due to having to expose for the couple needed some playing with. I recently acquired some sky overlays, and was excited to be able to try one out...I think it turned out quite nice! The picture looks more cohesive now and that makes me happy. :-)