These flowers are attached to a blade like stem by a very fine segment so they blow easily in the wind and give the appearance of floating in the air. In this case, I chose to just eliminate the stem and go for the flower alone (in processing-no flowers were harmed). This is an 18 image stack. It probably didn’t need to be that much, but that’s how it came out. Color balance was tricky because I was using a green umbrella to block the wind. However, this is pretty true to life.
It’s best to look for these in the afternoon as they tend to open when things warm up. they just look like fine blue pennants before then.
What technical feedback would you like if any?
Anything. I did clean up a few blemishes on the petals using the patch tool and just a bit of cloning in one place where the edge was a bit messy.
What artistic feedback would you like if any?
Does this composition work?
Pertinent technical details or techniques:
5DIII, EF180 f/3.5 macro, tripod, 18 images at f/8, 1/2500, iso 1600, manual exposure. Stacking in Helicon Focus. Additional processing in LR & PS CC. Cropped from the horizontal to 4602x3612. Taken yesterday at 1:03 pm under mostly cloudy skies.