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Photography Area~Our Photos => Flora/Trees/Fruit => Topic started by: gjtoth on June 30, 2010, 02:22:57 PM
I guess this is a Black Oil Sunflower because that's all I feed 'em. I don't think it's a Nyjer thistle. Anywaysssssss... I shot this with the new 18-180mm. First shot is in ambient light from the window. Second one is using two strobes - one from the upper right diffused with an umbrella and using an orange gel, the other a backlight strobe with a green gel. These things wilt FAST. You can see the difference in the leaves from the first to the second shot. It didn't take me more than a couple of minutes to set up the strobes.
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I wonder how big they will grow. Pat has had sunflowers in her garden that are easily 10 feet tall, as have I. The birds devour the seeds.
I like the pictures especially the second, I would love to see the flowers when they have fully matured, if the birds don't get them first!!
We always got bigger sunflowers from the bird-planted seeds than from seeds we bought and planted. And they turned up in the most surprising places! ;D