A year ago I took my first and only photography lesson with Mike’s Camera Shop and learned how to use F-stops. Reading an article about F-stops the other day reminded me that I forget to spin knobs and click buttons before I shoot pictures. So often my close up pictures aren’t excellent. During our class we got really close.
Sometimes I got a little closer to the little hairs on the stem than I did to the blossom.
“It’s all in the composition,” says Leanne Cole. That was before my first, and only lesson with her. Life keeps getting in the way. I have Australia – lessons with Leanne on my bucket list, though.
I think the shadow on the top flower resembles the 1970s cartoon, Gumpy, jumping off a roof, or sneaking up on someone.
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I hope you enjoyed today’s travel theme, “Close Up.” If you did the traveling was all yours. I stayed close to home! 🙂 What is close to home for you?
Marsha Ingrao - Always Write 
27 responses to “Travel Theme: Close Up”
Har har I just love the hairs on the stems- to me, especially with perfect gin-coloured sunset backlighting, they become just as beautiful as the flowers! Loved your shots here, lassie. Lovely post. I remember the post you did about the class back when you first took it. Marvelous. Cheers to you,
Autumn Jade
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I know,I’m scraping the bottom of the barrel right now, picture-wise. 🙂
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NOT at all!
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Lovely pictures here, I have problems with close ups too and need to practice.Your last one is my favourite!
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Thanks. I need more practice. I am stretched thin on practicing. Writing, photography, and now dancing. Yikes! 🙂
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Very pretty, Marsha!
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Thanks Naomi! 🙂
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Oh, and I forgot to say the third photo is lovely.
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You are so funny! Thanks! 🙂
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Hmmm, I find close-ups very tricky and like you I usually have the background in focus, not the subject. (just ask Justin Beaver about this. He even wrote a post about my failings in this area)
I must look up F-stops in my camera instruction book.
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I like to put Manny out of focus every once in a while, just to keep him in line. 🙂 Have you noticed his pictures from OK on FB? 🙂
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Yes I’ve been following his adventures. He doesn’t seem to be missing you!
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I know! What’s up with that!??? 🙂
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He’s too busy enjoying himself.
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Sounds like him! Actually that sounds like you! You know how to have fun! 🙂
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He’s a quick learner!
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So he tells me! 🙂
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I bet Gumpy jumped down as soon as you turned your back to leave. xox
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He chased me out of there. He didn’t want his secret hiding place discovered and put on the internet! 🙂
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I find it quite hard to get close-ups Marsha. Maybe I need to do one of those courses! 😉
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It’s a little knob on the top of my camera that I always forget about. Then, of course, there’s the ISO settings I need to play with, and I also forget about the lighting setting at the bottom of my round button on the back called WB. Leanne just told me that’s why I get blue pictures so much. I forget to switch to outdoor lighting! Yikes! 🙂
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Great looking close-ups, Marsha, especially the hairy stem. LOL @ Gumpy. 😀
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I’m so glad it was a picture of the hairy stem and not my leg or face or something! 🙂
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“or something.” 😀
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Yikes! 🙂
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Wonderful close-ups for sure… looks so lovely 😀
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Hi Mariane,
Thanks so much for the compliment. Hope things are going well for you. 🙂
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