Micheal McKennedy

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This photograph of an Amaryllis was taken by Micheal Mckennedy on February 16, 2011 using a Canon EOS T1I camera.  The photographer has positioned the flower in the centre of the frame coming out from the left bottom corner, nearly reaching the right top corner. I presume they must have used a spotlight or tourch to capture more light because of the dark shadowing around the frame. For me the white background makes the flower in the fore-ground really stand out as the image is quite high contrast. Because of the amount of light in the background it brings out crisp and sharp tones and lining of the petals. Micheal Mckennedy may of converted the image from the original coloured version into black and white by using a photo editing software such as Photo-shop or he might own a filter or lens on/for his camera. He might also of edited the brightness and contrast levels to bring out darker tones of the image. I hope to experiment with using a bright background to make my photographs in high contrast wihout the help of an editing software.

Micheal Mckennedy captured this image of another Amaryllis on February 25, 2011 using a Canon EOS REBEL T1I. He positioned his viewfinder in an extreme close-up shot and possibly used a macro lens. I like that you can see into the flower and the detailing of the petals are visible including shading, dark tones and reflected light. The background is just white. I think that the photographer might of placed a piece of white paper behind the flower  in the fore-ground as you can see the shadow reflect onto the white background. The image is in low contrast as you can see a range of tones that change from light to dark. For experimentations I would like to try capturing an extreme close-up of a flower using low contrast lighting.

This image of an white flower was taken on June 25, 2011. It is the first image in the series of a flower study he has done in HDR using a lomography filter and converted into black and white. This photograph instantly strikes at me because of the high contrast used. For example the extremely dark background and the bright whiteness of the flower.