wild
The great thing about not chemically treating your lawn is that you get all kinds of interesting weeds! This is a wild strawberry, and it's slightly bigger than a chocolate chip. Their little yellow flowers (which, of course, precede the berries) are a lot more common than buttercups around here.
Have I ever eaten one? No.
(Edit- it's actually a MOCK STRAWBERRY. Not a real wild strawberry at all.)
(submitted to Macroday for "red." Most of the other entries are much better, so if you want to look at some pretty pictures, go check it out!)Edit: okay, folks, between these two... any preferences?
Son of the Edit: The original image has been completely replaced by its successor. It was never here.
10 comments:
I thought it was a raspberry. I must be more careful with what I eat in the wild now. How do you post these large images to blogger? They look great.
you are really getting some nice macros from this new camera!...
and the composition works very well...
one thought, though... if gimp has a brush/sponge to spot desaturate, you might want to tone down the center of the berry... i think you've lost some detail there...
oh... and if you do try that, use a brush with a very sort edge and go over the area bit by bit... it works best that way...
jkirlin- Flickr + messing with Blogger templates. Have you seen "A Hat Full of Sky?" She somehow manages to make a thumbnail archive on Blogger, too!
mgilpin- That detail in the berry is just plain lost, saturation or no. This is a crop, and.... Huh. Actually, if I tilt my screen, I can make out more detail, so I guess the detail IS there, which I hadn't originally thought. Oooooookay. Back to the GIMPing board.
i'm really liking these macros you're doing lately. a hardy, booming bravo to you!
without a doubt, the second one is a better image...
what did you do to get the detail?...
RD- And a hardy, booming, ear-splitting THANK YOU to you!
m- Well, after screwing around with selectively desaturating and darkening and adjusting levels... and deciding I was getting nowhere... I magic-wanded the brightest red bits and lowered the contrast.
...and then pumped the saturation back up a teeny bit, because dammit, I like bright colors.
Thanks for the suggestion. :)
Please, no technical jargon, like "screwing around." :)
I like the bottom photo - & I love the depth you get with this macro -very 3D; nice shot.
(nodding)... nice choices/decisions/technique... the color is great... and the detail is there... it looks great!...
and you are welcome... it is my pleasure... really and truly...
Nikon- Please. I am the layman for whom they invented the term "layman's terms." ;)
And a smile and a nod in Mr. Mgilpin's direction.
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