African Violet Macro
As I promised, recently I started practicing photography more seriously, not just snapping a photo on the go and betting on getting lucky. I have a plan for the upcoming future and I hope I can accomplish as much of my plan as possible. The truth is, there are a lot of tutorial videos available for free, for smartphone photography, but most of us is ok with the default and automatic settings. That's the lazy way and I'm not any better than others, when it comes to this. So It's time to change that.
As I mentioned previously, I'm a huge fan of buds. I love buds more than flowers when it comes to taking photos. My African violet is starting flower now and I thought it's a good occasion to take a bunch of photos, experimenting with different settings, to see which one is better.
Believe it or not, my biggest fear was how to handle the plant. If you're not familiar with the African violet, let me tell you that the flexibility of the leaves is very little or non existent. You can't just lift the leave as it breaks in a second. These leaves are thick, hairy, as you can see on the photos, but extremely fragile. I don't think I've seen any plant similar to these, that are so fragile.
This is why it is easy to collect broken leaves in the flower shop or nursery, when you see African violets. People have no idea how to handle them. They also have no idea about how to propagate them, so the leaves are most likely thrown away, which is a real shame.
Most likely I'm the only fool collecting, protecting and giving these leaves a new life.
So next time I need to pick a different background as this one is not good. I need a neutral color.
As about my flower collection, I'd like to have more colors as at the moment I only have this blue and pink. The pink is not doing so well, so there's a chance it won't survive. I'd like to get some deep red, white and let's see what other colors are out there.
As about the photos, well, there is a lot to learn but I think I had enough of African violet photography. I'd rather stick to architecture and black and white as it seems more interesting for me at the moment. It's time to explore what life grants us and what technology can offer at the moment.
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Wow! This buds are looking so amazing. It's color also looks so beautiful. Nice photography
Thank you @kawsar8035.
These were taken with a phone? If yes, which kind ?
Because this is too good.
Yes, with a simple Samsung Galaxy F62. I'm glad you like them.
I had to quickly go and check it out. The camera does magic
I'm satisfied with it. Good quality for the money I paid for it.
Wow the photos are incredible good and the plant is also amazing , I have never seen this before.
Thank you. It's an indoor plant, very popular here and in Europe in general.
Thank you.
Good stuff! Funny how both posted plants at the same time. Great minds think in parallel haha.
Lol, I'm glad you like them. Looks like it's plant day or week. 😄
You're the first person who I will see say that he prefer buds to flowers
That's quite interesting
Nice pictures!!!
Thank you. Well, buds are more interesting for me.
Beautiful flower buds, as well as detailed macro shots certainly make for stunning photos. I also like to hunt for macro objects in the bush & forest.
The African Violet is stunning, but much of this splendor depends on the photos-they are very beautiful. Vivid colors and contrasted to perfection!
When you change the camera settings on your phone and start taking the photos yourself, even a simple landscape changes meaning completely: it's what you saw and what you gave weight to, not the camera processor that averaged the light to define exposure time and aperture!
When you take photos in "manual" the photo is completely your own!
Keep up the good work!
Now I don't know Samsung's software, but there is an app on the play store that allows you to have full management of the phone's camera; it's called Open Camera and it's free!
Nice macro details. Cool colours.
Thank you Sergio!
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Why are you downvoting my posts?
Because you don't deserve the rewards.
Why? Is reposting our own content plagiarism?
No, it's considered abusing the reward pool.
All photographs and content is mine. How I am exploiting the reward pool?
By posting the same shit several times.
I never knew that was not allowed here because after introduction of communities I saw people posting the same content into different communities so I did that. Atleast you should give warning for this before downvoting the content.
You've been here since May 2017, which means for 6 years. Don't come here asking for preferential treatment. It's your responsibility to respect the rules, but you couldn't care less. You have around 7500 HP, almost all delegated out for rewards and the rest of your earnings have been transferred out of the chain. Your support for the chain is 0, I mean ZERO!!!! Your only goal is to milk more. This abuse stops now!
Is delegation a abuse?
Nope, but delegating all your earnings, coupled with the abuse you've been doing for years show how greedy and selfish you are. You're here to argue to get paid for abuse yet the only one you support is yourself.
This matter is closed.
I can't manually curate the post because I have full time job as a freelancer that's why I delegates otherwise my HP would have been wasted. Hive is a decentralized platform so why are u accusing me of abusing the rewards. I am free to do with my HP whatever I wanna.
Decentralized doesn't mean it's free to be abused.
Because you're been doing that. The evidence is there.
So am I and I chose to stop you from abusing the reward pool.
Have a nice day.
Did u warn me before this? Atleast you should tell me that cross posting isn't allowed here and I gladly would have stopped that but you suddenly attacked like there is no second chance to correct yourself.
As i said, it's not my job to hold your hand and spoon feed you. You have responsibilities here.
You did not cross post, you posted the same content several times. Cross posting is a different thing.
I did not attack you, just removed your rewards that you don't deserve.
Isn't it cross posting? I thought posting in different communities is cross posting and people do it here without any issues.
Do you not read replies? You sound like me 5 year old nephew who refuses to listen because the answer isn't what he wants
Are you the same user as @erikah?
Now I m posting my brand new post and never share the older content. My post isn't showing due to low ratings, please fix it.
Nothing to fix here as nothing is broken. You are muted in the community and the decision is final.
This was my first time, atleast one chance should be given or I can wait for few days when the ban is over.
It wasn't your fist time as you've been doing this for years. You've been given a chance and used it to abuse the community an Hive. The ban is permanent.
This is my last reply to you. Have a nice day.
These photos are gorgeous Erika! I know all too well how fragile they are! It's so nice to see that your plants are starting to bud and they are looking so healthy.
I was thinking of you this morning when I took some photos of mine which I repotted a while back and it must have loved that because it's flowering now. Looking forward to seeing your flowers, they look like an amazing colour variety.
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You are not the only one that collects leaves and plants them, that I can promise you. It is something my mom is always doing. she collects stuff pretty much wherever she goes. we even tease her about it and tell her to stop stealing peoples plants LOLZ!
Both my folks are quite into gardening so I learned a lot from them growing up and I guess you could say that in some ways it has become one of my own loves now. It is quite surprising how many plants you can grow from a cutting or a leaf and most of the stuff I have growing now has come from my folks garden.
You are not alone, LOLZ!
I'm glad to hear I'm not the only weirdo of the planet. Picking up leaves, especially broken ones is the easiest and healthiest way of recycling and propagating plants. I love it.
I'm glad you do that too and that you've learnt that at home. I think teaching kids to respect nature is important.
Definitely not the only weirdo, LOLZ!
It is SOOOOOO rewarding when you successfully get something to grow that way!
Respect for nature is something which should be shared among all, no matter their age!