{"id":916,"date":"2019-06-11T08:56:51","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T08:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smudgeonthelens.co.uk\/?p=916"},"modified":"2019-11-21T13:58:04","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T13:58:04","slug":"capturing-an-iris-flower-in-bloom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smudgeonthelens.co.uk\/?p=916","title":{"rendered":"Capturing an Iris Flower in Bloom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I started this post about a month ago&#8230;and then life happened and I forgot to finish it!  The Iris in my garden was looking very beautiful.  Sadly, it has now faded away again for another year, but at the time I tried to capture how it looked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And that&#8217;s where I totally bombed!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you are familiar with an Iris flower, they&#8217;re quite a unique shape to photograph.  In some ways they remind me of a tongue with a catepillar crawling on it, and no matter what angle I tried, I couldn&#8217;t find anything that pleased me.  Iris look great en masse, but when I photographed a single flower, it just didn&#8217;t thrill me!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ll show you what I mean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-envira-envira-gallery\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>What I did learn is that the Iris (much like the human eye) has some beautiful intricate details that I&#8217;ve not noticed before.  It has an almost animal print effect on the petails and a gorgeous, feathery effect yellow Beard (true word &#8211; I <em>Googled<\/em> it!).  But no matter how I tried, I could seem to convey it in a photo that made me happy.  So I turned to Google again and it seems, I wasn&#8217;t alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This chap (Stephen Bloedow), has also encountered the same problem.  He&#8217;s written a blog post about how to get the best possible shot from the Iris, suggesting some hints and tips.  If you&#8217;re really hard core, he even suggests where to plant them to achieve the best photographic results.  Sadly, I just plonked mine in the border next to a fence.  If you want to check out his article, I&#8217;ve put the link below.  It&#8217;s worth a look.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stephenbloedow.com\/how-to-photograph-iris-flowers\/\">http:\/\/www.stephenbloedow.com\/how-to-photograph-iris-flowers\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, these are the two images I think are just about OK to show you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.smudgeonthelens.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_6743a-816x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-933\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.smudgeonthelens.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_6753-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-934\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Not perfect, but you see what I mean about the tricky shape?  Why don&#8217;t you give it a go if you still have some in bloom near you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started this post about a month ago&#8230;and then life happened and I forgot to finish it! The Iris in my &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[21],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smudgeonthelens.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smudgeonthelens.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smudgeonthelens.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smudgeonthelens.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smudgeonthelens.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.smudgeonthelens.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1215,"href":"https:\/\/www.smudgeonthelens.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916\/revisions\/1215"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smudgeonthelens.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smudgeonthelens.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smudgeonthelens.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smudgeonthelens.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}