Flowers gallery

Flowers macro - Images by Sergey Shalatskiy

Creating flower images is not an easy task, and requires a lot of work, thinking, and, often, luck.
I used various processing and shooting techniques for these images. Most of them have been processed in Photoshop using standard set of tools, with multiple layers and filters.
The most recent ones are taken using Lensbaby 3G. It is a very versatile and fun to use lens. Imagine that it works like a zoom from a very decent enlargement and minimal distance for macro images to a pretty long lens for shooting regular scenes. And, the area of sharper focus can be adjusted to be in any part of an image: top, bottom, left, right, center... Lensbaby produces a very special bokeh pattern, practically impossible to simulate with Photoshop.