Season's almost over.

I'm making the most I can with the end-of-season flowers in the garden. I love decorating with flowers in any season!

 

Ronni, I am REALLY!! impressed with your pics in this thread..
You have some very good equipment AND SUPER skill behind the lens... Those may be the best pics I've seen on any forum..
Hank

 

Absolutely gorgeous fotos and beautiful flowers.
I LIKE this posting!

 

Thanks, all.

Wow Hank thanks. I'm very flattered.

I'm a little embarrassed though, in light of such praise, to confess that it's just my iPhone camera and some judicious editing of the images...a bit of cropping where the image wasn't framed just right, adjusting the color where it was a bit washed out or dark, that kind of thing. No fancy equipment, not a whole lotta skill either.

 

Wow, Nice iPhone Ronni. Would never know it wasn't taken with a good camera. Great flowers too. Especially at this time of year..

 

Great photo's! and more than just photo editing. You have a great 'eye' for colors and form. I enjoyed seeing them.

 

Ronni,..beautiful pictures,.. every one,..each one could be used on a very expensive greeting card,..chocolate box or gardening magazine

 

Thanks Barb and Philip

Barb, my iPhone is really amazing for taking photos...for those of you who are camera buffs, it's a 12-megapixel camera Autofocus, Optical image stabilization, True Tone flash, shoots Panorama shots up to 63 megapixels.

It has an ƒ/2.2 aperture, Five-element lens, 5x digital zoom, Hybrid IR filter, Auto image stabilization, Noise reduction and Face detection. And a variety of other features which I didn't want to bore you with. Packs quite a punch for a cell phone camera, more features and better photos than my last point and shoot camera which cost a couple hundred.

Thanks for this....I really enjoy the composition aspect of photos, and I guess that's what you're talking about. Not that there was much composition in the ones I took here, other than maybe moving the vase over a bit to capture more of the surroundings, or adjusting the blinds so a shot wasn't so backlit...that kind of thing. And part of that composition too is just the "decorating" part of putting those flowers out, finding the right place for this vase or that jar, so that its color and form in both vase and flowers compliment where I'm putting it, or vice versa.

I love the whole process. Taking the actual picture is almost mundane after working to set up the shot itself! Though oftentimes, with action shots (like with the grandkids) it's luck more than anything else.