Friday, June 5, 2015

Friday Finds -Bottles and Poppies

I've pretty much reached the end of my studio reorganization. At least I can work in it now and I still have a few empty shelves in the closet. Yes!
While going through everything' I found some old photos and memorabilia that brought back wonderful memories. I also found a small box of tiny bottles bought in a garage sale 2 summers ago. Best find ever! 
(iPhone, Snapseed, Stackables)
I set them up and waited for a morning I could pick some poppies and shoot away. I also found I was going to have to rearrange just a bit more so my body is not in the way of my morning light.

I was fretting early this spring that I might not have many poppies because the rabbits kept eating them. Unfortunately our little pellet gun is not sighted in correctly. We missed a whole lot more than we hit. But they survived in a few spots, one being next to the bird bath. I about died when I walked out a couple days ago and saw this.
(iPhone, Enlight app)
I tried to capture the same thing on the Canon but it's not quite the same.

More shots I found time to edit yesterday. I've made a preset that brings out the detail in the red and applied it to all of these. Then added another on top of some.
Added kk_serendipitous. (ISO 160 100mm f/5.6 1/180sec)

Added kk_serendipitous. (ISO 160 100mm f/5.6 1/180sec)

An old preset of Kim's called AutumnCopperII. (ISO 100 100mm f/4 1/250sec)

Added kk_lightandairyfilm. (ISO 100 100mm f/4.5 1/180sec)

Here's a before and after so you can see how the 'red' changes. Exactly one year ago I gave the details on my blog for these settings. Check out 'Shooting Red'.

Joining Kim for Friday Finds!
Kim Klassen dot com

7 comments:

  1. I love seeing your poppies. Definitely a difference between iPhone and Canon in the joy of processing part, at least it is for me.

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  2. So gorgeous! I'm always on the lookout for interesting bottles and jars. And those poppies! Wow!

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  3. Wow, oh wow! I especially love that reflection shot. Outstanding!

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  4. What a great collection of old bottles, Roxi !
    And wow, those poppies ... the one with the reflection is gorgeous, wonderful edits too !
    Happy weekend,
    Sylvia

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  5. Gorgeous gorgeous poppies in those amazing bottles - love!

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  6. That first image and the one with the bird bath look quite extraordinary, Roxi, I really like them. I've seen quite a few poppies in the fields around lately, it's obviously their season now and they are so prominent... In my experience, red colour is a difficult one and it's interesting to see these adjustments and those you provided a link to as getting it right in the camera sometimes seems utterly impossible.

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  7. These are beautiful shots! I just love shooting poppies. We have some in the garden, but they haven't opened yet.
    -Desirae

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