Phal Pictures!!!
 

I love LOVE photography!! And I'm thrilled to have blooming Phals as my subject! Hopefully you guys will enjoy looking as much as I have enjoyed photographing! All of these are Phal NOIDS.

Hopefully some Dendrobiums coming soon! *fingers crossed*

Very nice images. I love to photograph flowers. Especially my flowers. Someday I will figure out how to get my flower prints into the PC and then onto the screen. I photograph using a large format film camera and print in a darkroom. I have a digital camera which I use to show people here how I do things and what I do with my orchids. Here are a couple I took today. Just learning the digital platform rigtht now. Hope you like them.

If you can get your hands on a scanner that's the easiest way I've been able to do it... I'd love to see more of your work if you ever got them online!

I envy your darkroom! *drooling* I have an SLR and would spend my years income in a month if I had a film camera! I'm one of those people who takes a billion different angles of the same thing and a few more billion copy shots JUST IN CASE something was off on one of the others... *shakes head* Rapid frame is my favorite setting... *impish grin* If I did that with film, I'd be done...

The upside? It's cheap! It's easier to get that perfect shot because I can play around. Online editing is always fun too!

The downside? I don't pay enough attention to my settings... Shutter speed, aperture, etc. SLR's and Photoshop enable you to remain ignorant to the details in a lot of cases... Haha! So my hat is off to you for sticking with the film!

I would love to get my hands on a Macro lens too... My lens is made for more portraits and landscape shots... What do you use?

You can see some of my images on [url=http://www.usefilm.com under james mickelson. I print at 11x14 inches. That's the smallest I print. Sometimes I print at 20x24 inches. My scanner doesn't go that big. Learn to use your setting and it will open a whole new world for you. You won't go back to burst or auto. And macro lenses are cheap. I suggest a 105mm if you can find one. Ebay is the best. I shoot mainly black and white as color in film is very difficult to print in a darkroom and besides, color and the digital platform are a match made by God himself. Nothing in a darkroom can compete with digital. The camera, scanner, photoshop, and printer can all be calibrated to a nats but where you can enhance the smallest details. Have fun with your camera. I'd love to see more images here from everyone.

Yeah, that might be a bit big for a scanner... Haha!

I bought a wonderful big book to learn all the ins and outs of SLR Photography a few years back with my camera... *sighs* I took one good look in it and decided that could wait until I had more time to study it! It's still waiting... ;)

I was part of a Photography Guild for a while and learned a lot about landscapes and water shots, but it's been so long since I've been able to do anything serious that I don't recall all the info anymore... =(

Good grief! Those are beautiful!!!!!

Great pictures! :drool:

Since we got a DSLR my hubby does most of the orchid photos. I love using it as well but while we bought the camera mainly for me to help get good orchid shots he's really taken it on as a hobby and loves doing snapping the orchids as well. It's great to have complementary hobbies like that :)

By the way, are you aware that the blue Phal is dyed?

Phals don't come in that colour, in fact very few orchids are ever a true blue. But some companies dye the flowers by putting a silver solution into the stem, which is drawn up into the flower and turns it blue. They will likely bloom white next time around.

:banana::bananaslide::love:Photography is great...!!! My camera goes everywhere with me! My fur babies are my usual subject, but anything is fair game!:evil: My hubby might like to play around more with the camera, but I'm just a bit of a hog... ;) Share some of your favs!

Yes, I know it's temporary blue...:( It would be neat to have one that grows that naturally, but I have my violets for that! :biggrin: That blue orchid was in the "left for dead" section and I couldn't let that happen...:evil: I thought about trying to put food color in the water to keep it blue but realized it was more hassle then it was worth. The white/yellow blooms will be beautiful!:)

And it's a big healthy plant, so that beats all! I will post a pic of the roots later, they are GREAT!!!