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- Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Plants#Order_:_Lamiales
Info Large-flowered hemp-nettle at sunset, all by Ivar (talk) 10:02, 16 September 2016 (UTC)
Support -- Ivar (talk) 10:02, 16 September 2016 (UTC)- Support --XRay talk 12:11, 16 September 2016 (UTC)
- Support 😄 ArionEstar 😜 (talk) 16:36, 16 September 2016 (UTC)
- Support INeverCry 21:34, 16 September 2016 (UTC)
- Support The water droplets make it really special. Daniel Case (talk) 04:03, 17 September 2016 (UTC)
- Support Good composition. ~ Moheen (talk) 08:10, 17 September 2016 (UTC)
- Info Since user @Charlesjsharp: is very curious, how is this kind of photo (with golden-orange background) made, I'll post some tips here. You need macro lens, tripod, golden hour time and large open ground. The light is changing from golden to orange and finally to reddish at sunset (and vice versa at sunrise). Background vegetation has to be far enough, if you want a smooth golden background. This photo is made about half hour before sunset and that's why the background is orange. Different photos with golden hour light conditions are here: Category:Plants and trees at golden hour. Good luck! --Ivar (talk) 11:23, 17 September 2016 (UTC)
- I think it works. When the background objects are away, you'll get a smooth background with the colors of the ambient light available; green if foliage around in day time and golden in sun rise/set (in high ISO or slow exposure). But if we only need is a background, we can create it holding a leaf or golden paper behind. (See Background, Artificial Background.) I had seen my friends doing it , holding leaves behind. (What I don't like here is the golden tint on the subject too which decreases the EV as a botanical illustration for Wikipedia. That's why prefer to abstain from voting here. Off-course they may visually more beautiful in golden hours and may be useful in other places.) Jee 13:56, 17 September 2016 (UTC)
- Golden hour photograpy is so much more than just the background, it is also the golden light you get from the sun at that time and it changes how structures and cliffs look too. This special light is more prominent in northern countries since it lasts longer there and people have time to really enjoy it. cart-Talk 15:52, 17 September 2016 (UTC)
- Indeed. I can't comment further about it as the sun and light will disappear here before 18.30; complete darkness in 21.00. ;) Jee 16:32, 17 September 2016 (UTC)
- I know, when I visit countries further south I can never get used to how fast the sun sets. You should see the nights here in June when it never gets dark. Unfortunately it's the other way around in winter... cart-Talk 18:06, 17 September 2016 (UTC)
- And starting next week, the days will get shorter faster for you in the northern temperate latitudes than they do for those of us in the lower temperates. (Sunrise here at 41°33'N is at 6:42 a.m. tomorrow, with sunset coming just after 7 p.m. I believe we already have a longer day than you ... So maybe I can take some of these golden-hour images
). Daniel Case (talk) 06:30, 18 September 2016 (UTC)
Neutral So why do I keep chatting on this page without voting? Truth is that this time I had a hard time making up my mind. It is a sharp and well-composed photo in many ways but with too many "effects" IMO. First there is the almost perfect symmetry of the plant, then you have the hairs of the nettle creating minute halos and catching the sun, further is the golden hour light and finally there are the water drops. Any one of these things would enhance a photo, but taken together it is just too much. Like a cake with all your favorite flavors at once. cart-Talk 08:31, 18 September 2016 (UTC)- Support--Vamps (talk) 09:53, 22 September 2016 (UTC)
- Support Kruusamägi (talk) 17:47, 23 September 2016 (UTC)
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