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Globe Thistles
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I’ve always loved black and white photography for its ability to isolate the subject in ways that color can’t always translate, but it’s not for every subject, and often black and white doesn’t seem (to me, at least) to work well with flowers. Flowers have an inherent softness and romance that sometimes gets lost in the transition to black and white. However, flowers with a stronger, more graphical architecture can be more suited to the starker nature of a black and white photograph.

These globe thistles seemed a good candidate for black and white. They have a very strong structure and graphic element, and the color inherent in the real blooms was lacking in interest. This image wasn’It wasn’t about the color, it was about the shape, the light, the contrast.

The image was shot indoors with natural window light and fill flash against a black foam core board with a Canon Mark III, a Canon 100mm f/2.8 macro lens at f/22 at 2sec.

This photo was posted by Dawn LeBlanc on Friday, August 22nd, 2008 at 7:37 am and is filed under Macro

5 Responses »

  1. Viva Wedding Photography on September 15th, 2008 at 7:19 pm:

    Very beautiful, amazing how similar patterns appear in nature – be it human biology at the cellular level, something cosmic or a simple flower…

  2. Vicki Goff on December 1st, 2008 at 9:32 am:

    I love the contrast in this black and white image, validating these thistles and all their prickly beauty.

  3. Dawn LeBlanc on December 3rd, 2008 at 12:17 pm:

    thanks for the comments! much appreciated, dawn

  4. phone jammer on July 7th, 2009 at 9:12 am:

    Hi there I like your post

  5. Derek Cheng on July 31st, 2009 at 12:08 am:

    Really enjoy reading this! Thanks for sharing.

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