Clicking on the orchid image above will link you to my SmugMug Orchid Portfolio.
I hope you enjoy these orchid photos. I apologize for the watermark in the center, but it is to protect them from little thieves. If someone purchases a print, the watermark is removed. I’m also having challenges with formatting this page which was posted through Smugmug.
Had great fun learning new processing techniques this week. Let me know what you think. At this rate, we’ll all be super techies!
Categories: Flowers
Emily Carter ~ Nature as Art 
Wow! I’ve attended several orchid shows at the local botanical garden, but I’ve never seen one like that before!
This was at the home & garden show this weekend in Baltimore. Tons of different orchids, and they had lighting on the sale tables. Bonus ! Did you click through to smugmug? About 25 more to go. 🙂
Not yet, I’m a bit busy tonight helping my guest blogger’s photos to display correctly.
Isn’t that fun..well, I’m 3 days behind on reading, so we’re even. 🙂
Officially this one is a miniature iris
The image is Iris though. 😦
If you click through to the gallery except for this one all are orchids
I have to say that is a stunning photo !!!
Thank you so much Susan. I hope you had a chance to link through to the portfolio. I just added 25 more images tonight from another shoot.
omg, those orchirds are just out of this world. And who would steal pictures? Love the specks on the Iris.
You’d be amazed. Every time someone looks at one of your images more closes (click throughs on stats) they most likely are saving the image on their hard drive. I’ve frequently found my images on Pinterest which I didn’t approve. AND, someone had copied them from my smugmug sight.
You are always learning something new – and it gives me incentive to keep on learning, too! Wonderful photo…
This new software rocks Rebecca ! I feel like I should reprocess all my images that could possibly sell. Slowing starting to trudge through them.
Good for you! There is so much that I learning incrementally. What I am finding is that photography cannot be rushed – it must be felt. Thank you for being there for me.
It is so true. And even once I take an image and through post processing I find myself saying “I’m not feeling it” with the image. Sometimes it works, some times it doesn’t. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. 🙂
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This is so beautiful!! Great capture and post-processing! 🙂
Thank you so much Calee. I would love to hear your opinion on the rest of them in the portfolio too. I’m thinking art show to hopefully sell. 🙂
They’re all beautiful!! And I like that you included #2 to show what a beautiful place you took these photos at. You should definitely put these on show!!!
I love the colours in this image, the orchids are so beautiful and soft.
Thank you so much Leanne. I respect your opinion on these as you’re such a pro.
I love the vibrant colours. Another masterpiece!
What a stunning collection Emily! I’ve been dabbling with flower shots and I have found them extremely challenging especially the hot pink and reds. I now look at flower photography with a totally new level of admiration and yours are magnificent! Sharon
It is so true Sharon. Yellows, Reds and hot pinks always blow out and just get too hot with the image. I took a two-day class at the National Botanical Gardens with a super nature and photo photographer. I learned quite a bit. A bit tip was to soften the images of the flowers. With my new acquisition of Nik color pro 4, it’s easy as pie now to transform these. 🙂
Gorgeous!
Thanks Kate!
Bella – these are gorgeous. I love orchids and you’ve captured them beautifully.
You are so very sweet, and I love to get feedback on these images. I’m hoping people will like them enough to possibly buy them in an art show.
Not me Emily, I have a long way to go before my images turn out so crisp! LOVED the orchids 🙂
Oh boy did I have to practice holding the camera steady. Breathing out, holding my breath, bracing myself, etc. etc. LOL ! 🙂
Just stunning and beautiful! Are these from your personal flowers or just a random flower?
This is stunning!
Thank you so much Mary.
Beautiful…it is SO hard to photograph flowers (my daughter is a florist and I take pics of her flowers for magazines, brochures etc) so I know how hard it is to get right…but you have managed it perfectly!
Thank you so much ! I agree, flowers are really tough and thanks to a two-day workshop last summer, I am starting to get it. Also the Nik Color Efex made editing really easy once I worked out the formula for this series.
You have really captured this precious flower! Beautiful 🙂
Thank you so much Judy. You should click on the image and you can see my full orchid gallery. I’ve been having fun learning.
I clicked and left a comment. I hope it went through 🙂
You are awesome, I’m going to go and look. I’m still learning about all the features smugmug has. 🙂
Please let me know if it went through. If not, I will comment again 🙂
I sure did get it, and even got an email notice. Thank you SO MUCH ! 🙂
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