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WishmasterAlchemist

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Out of a Tale by WishmasterAlchemist

This photo was taken on the same day as 'All Around Me Clover', when I said that I was originally photographing clover with my 50mm f/1.8 lens.

After several tries, I opted for not cropping the image at all and concentrated on the color correction, in which I desaturated the greens and saturated the reds and yellows, aiming to highlight the little flowers and precious bokeh.

Thank you for reading,
Silvia


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All Around Me Clover by WishmasterAlchemist

This is a photo I'm very proud of. It hasn't received as much good feedback as I was excepcting but oh well, I'm sure many fellow artists know what I'm speaking of. Sometimes, works that you hardly find satisfying and might not even have published get loads of positive feedback and appreciation, whereas works you love, are proud of and put so much effort into barely get noticed. But we artists don't let such things discourage us from keeping it up, right?

The reason why I like this shot so much is that I was originally photographing clover with my 50mm f/1.8 lens and then noticed the little bees going back and forth over the sweet-smelling flowers. So I immediately switched to the 70-300mm telephoto lens and tested its limits with 1:2 macro photography. My personal challenge was to hold the equipment steady and get one of these insects sharp on focus without using a tripod.

The honey bees were buzzing around in a shady spot of the garden under the hazelnut tree, so I raised the ISO and still obtained a dark-ish image that I later brightened up heavily in the post-processing: one high-key curve did all of the job and was combined with a color correction adjustment layer to get rid of some disturbing magenta hues. Once that was done, the square crop was almost a must, since the left side of the original image consisted of uninteresting, negative space.

Species Name

Wikipedia Favicon by Marcosrstone Apis mellifera
Flag of United Kingdom by EmilyStor3 Flag of United States by EmilyStor3 Western Honey Bee, European Honey Bee
Flag of Italy by EmilyStor3 Ape europea
Flag of France by EmilyStor3 Abeille européenne, Avette, Mouche à miel
Flag of Spain by EmilyStor3 Abeja europea, Abeja doméstica, Abeja melífera
Flag of Germany by EmilyStor3 Westliche Honigbiene, Europäische Honigbiene
Flag of Netherlands by EmilyStor3 Honingbij


Species Name

Wikipedia Favicon by Marcosrstone Trifolium repens
Flag of United Kingdom by EmilyStor3 Flag of United States by EmilyStor3 White Clover, Dutch Clover
Flag of Italy by EmilyStor3 Trifoglio bianco, Trifoglio rampicante
Flag of France by EmilyStor3 Trèfle blanc, Trèfle rampant
Flag of Spain by EmilyStor3 Trébol blanco
Flag of Germany by EmilyStor3 Weiß-Klee, Kriech-Klee
Flag of Netherlands by EmilyStor3 Witte klaver


Thank you for reading,
Silvia


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Feed The Earth by WishmasterAlchemist

I'm concious that this is a cliché shot for plant growth, food and agriculture, but I like it nevertheless and the cliché certainly didn't stop me from posting it.

The shooting was pretty simple: I just had to find a wheat field in good shape and pick a healthy-looking ear out of the moltitude to be my main subject. This is also barely edited, as the warm shade of green I obtained out of the late evening light was great, and I just had to adjust the contrast and raise the saturation.

In other news, I've pleasantly found out that being unemployed (since June 1st) is doing some good to my artistic productivity. Despite the early and unexpected heat - which I'm going to hate every summer 'till the day I die no matter what - I've been idling in Camera Raw and post processing a lot. As a result, I have a couple of juicy pictures to publish. Right now I love them and the mood that made me feel disappointed and unsatisfied with everything is gone for good.

Besides, I don't need to worry about my financial situation either, because kind of unexpectedly my job application and interviews from last May will bring me back at my hometown's public library starting July 1st for another year of bookworm work and duties. It all sounds like a contract renewal of sorts, so yay, I'm going to enjoy June as I've never done before.

Thank you for reading,
Silvia


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The Dragons' Den by WishmasterAlchemist

The day I took this photo I was out hunting for a neat shot of green wheat - which I did manage and will post soon - but as the sun was setting down and the light turned interesting, my attention was caught by these awkward-looking plants standing tall in the middle of a wheat field that I was skirting while headed back home.

I turned west and pointed my camera into the sun to get intentional lens flare. I relied on the in-camera meter for exposure and was rewarded with a luminous image where the natural light gifted me with sun-shiny borders for the backlit flowers, soft bokeh and a light shower of sorts.

The image straight out of camera was actually TOO luminous and washed out, so I upped the contrast and blacks that little bit that was needed to bring out some more detail into the sun flare and background.

Despite my best efforts, I was unable to identify this plant species. My brother suggested it might be some uncommon wheat weed, but I've just started calling these i draghi del grano, "wheat's dragons" in English.

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Silvia


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Commissions by WishmasterAlchemist, journal

The Making Of #51 Out of a Tale by WishmasterAlchemist, journal

The Making Of #50 All Around Me Clover by WishmasterAlchemist, journal

The Making Of #49 Feed The Earth by WishmasterAlchemist, journal

The Making Of #48 The Dragons' Den by WishmasterAlchemist, journal