Hellebore? and?

[Rob MacKillop]

From my Darwinian Garden, current fittest...

Is this a hellebore?

white 2 by RobMacKillop, on Flickr

No idea what this is...

here by RobMacKillop, on Flickr

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X-S1 and Nik Colour for frame, and a wee bit darkening in Levels.

 

[Dave Green]

No idea what No2 is Rob but No1 looks like common old Bramble to me.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

So it is...I thought it was something more exotic, but no...Still, it's fit!

Still haven't figured out how to use the Super Macro whith the X-S1. The manual says the lens must be zoomed all the way out for it to be used, but when I do that, there is no way I can get anything remotely in focus. So, I just used standard macro. Must be doing something wrong.

 

[Dave Green]

Are you reading "Zoomed all the way out" correctly Rob? It means zoome out as in "widest angle."

 

[Rob MacKillop]

So ''zoomed all the way OUT'' actually means the zoom lens is all the way IN! i.e. contracted, not extended. Doh! I don't know why I can never read instructions correctly...my brain just doesn't work that way. Yet I can talk all day and night about dominant of the dominant tritone substitutions, Renaissance modal configurations, and Schubert's use of the augmented sixth - useless stuff!

 

[Peter McCullough]

Rob,

Superb floral photography, stunning shots my friend...!!!!!!!!


regards;
pete

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Thanks, Pete. Appreciated.

 

[Pete Askew]

Nice couple of shots and as Dave pointed out the first is not a Hellebore and it does look like a Bramble to me too. The second is an oriental poppy of some sort by the look of it.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Hmm...oriental poppy...I'll look into it. I often see passers by stop and have a look at it.

 

[Chris Dodkin]

The setting for the first shot, with the leaves forming a frame, is very nicely composed Rob - also loving the tones.

 

[Dave Moss]

It does mean all the way in mine automaticly closes it when I go to super macro although on macro you can still use the zoom

 

[Rob MacKillop]

I get it now. Thanks. And thanks, Chris.