Here is a Dalhia flower that I processed with two different looks.

Cropped, sharpened and processed in Smart Photo Editor.

Here is the original out of the camera.

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Backlighting and Shadows

When:
Summer

Where:
Edge of a pond,
Michigan

How:

It was early morning, and the sun had just peaked over the top of the trees as I was strolling along the edge of a pond looking for subjects to shoot.  

As I was walking, I happened to look up into a Sycamore tree and saw this interesting combination of backlighting and shadow.

The alignment of the leaves was amazingly perfect. I set up the frame with a nice tight shot to eliminate all the clutter of leaves and concentrated just on the main show.  

I set my f/stop at f32, as I had a lot of depth between the front leaf and the background leaves. I placed my point of focus on the small backlight leaf, which was about halfway between the front and back leaves.

It’s all about being in the right place at the right time and always scanning with your eyes for subjects like this. I could have easily walked past this but was lucky on this day that I looked up.

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This is not my usual macro/close-up image but while I was shooting macro/close-up images at the Meijer Botanical Garden in Grand Rapids, Michigan, I looked up into this very tall group of palm trees in the tropical greenhouse and just had to shoot these crazy patterns in the palms.

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My wife and I went to a local nursery to buy some new plants for our flower beds and came across this flower that I have never seen before.  

I was like, wow, look at this crazy looking flower, have to buy one to photograph. 

The sign behind the pots said it was a Kangaroo Paw Plant.

Shot with my Fuji X-T30 MKll and my Tamron 18-300.

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Shot this Zinnia at the Ankley Farm in Imlay City, MI.  Used my Fuji X-T30 MKll and Tamron 18-300 lens.  f/25 @ 1/30sec ISO2000.

Did a square crop of the flower center, sharpened the image and changed the color from the original red to what you see here.

Here is the original out of the camera.

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