Post your best current shots

**ddt0725** · 03-02-2012, 05:24 AM

Originally Posted by M_Six

Nice shots, Denise. Getting your money's worth out of those blooms.

Thanks! These did last for quite awhile ...$ well spent!

But their full beauty is starting to fade ...

IMG_9745 by Denise Trocio, on Flickr

**M_Six** · 03-02-2012, 12:35 PM

^^^^Love the PP in that one. Well done.

**ddt0725** · 03-02-2012, 09:33 PM

Thanks, Mark! That is alittle out of the ordinary for me and I didn't like it much at first but now it has become one of my favorites.

**Steve U** · 03-02-2012, 11:12 PM

I like that last one as well Denise, would you explain what you did and the set up for this shot please?

**ddt0725** · 03-03-2012, 12:00 AM

Originally Posted by Steve U

I like that last one as well Denise, would you explain what you did and the set up for this shot please?

Thanks, Steve!

I took a number of different shots so I'm not sure on specific flash settings, etc. I did use my Sigma 85mm and my 580ex II flash on my Manfrotto super clamp & arm at camera right with a stofen omi-bounce diffuser. I laid the flower on one of the square pieces of textured glass that I picked up at the hobby store yesterday. The textured glass works great and comes in lots of different textures and colors @ $5 a square.

In post I used two textured overlays from PhotoTools 2.6 Professional, Grunge Vignette and Wrinkles both set at 90%. That was pretty much it.

Denise

**Steve U** · 03-03-2012, 12:05 AM

Textured glass, that's cool, well done and nice effect with the overlays too. Thanks for the insight.

**Dave Throgmartin** · 03-03-2012, 12:32 AM

I took this one during a snow storm we had about a week ago. Taken with 60D, 135L @ f/5.6, 1/250 second, ISO 250, using a LumoPro LP-160 flash.

I can't seem to figure out how to post flickr pictures the right way, but figured out this way to do it...

**conropl** · 03-03-2012, 11:17 PM

A lot of nice shots lately.

I have been a out of touch lately and finally got a few days off to go up to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan (a beautiful place). A fair bit of snow fell while there... here area couple from this week (sorry I am not very good at sorting - so I ended up posting 2 simular):

Marquette Lighthouse on the Rocks-9498 by westmichigan, on Flickr

Marquette Lighthouse on the Rocks_9490 by westmichigan, on Flickr