Valentine's Rosy Tulips

These are my wonderful pictures of tulips. The tulips were actually from Valentine's Day, which we bought for my Mom. I took these pictures on a Tuesday, three days after Valentine's Day (Saturday). So the flowers were still in decent condition. I should have taken them earlier, when the flowers were looking fresher. 

This is semi-closeup. I wanted to take those kinds of pictures that were close up and showed a lot of detail. Well this picture is pretty detailed itself. The front has great detail, with the back blurred.     

 

There's this vibrant mode on the camera. It basically brings out the color and gives it a serious boost, like jump to the moon. I also specially focused on the second tulip and not the one right in front. 

I have to say, this picture couldn't have turned out better, except for one thing. There's always that one thing that keeps things from being perfect, which is why the world isn't perfect. What might that thing be? The brown thing on the right edge, I don't even know what it is. Whatever it is, it should be cropped out because its a distraction from the epic subject. What's so great about the rest of the picture? The way the sunlight shines through the window and surpasses the tops of the tulip. 

Once again, everything has its flaws. This picture might just have two. The background is split in half, half the blinds and half the wall. It looks weird because it gives the picture two different oscillating feels. I could have angled differently so that the background was only one. Plus, the left most flower has too much light shining on it. It must have been the light from the upper windows. It looks really out of place because it's the brightest and only one getting direct light. 

This is also another close-up. When I was taking this shot, I noticed this picture would make a great background. 

This is a direct top view of the flowers. It's like a helicopter view of the tops of buildings. 

Moving on, this is a black and white picture. There are about 7 different effects you can choose between. The black-and-white option has an option of how strong you wanted the effect 

This was also with an effect called the "toy effect". That basically vignettes the edges and puts the picture under calm effect. 

The funny thing is that these flowers traveled all around the house. They were in a glass vase, so I was able to move them around and set them where I liked. I moved around and wanted to find a plain background. So I thought why not the white background outside? There was snow on the ground, since it recently snowed that day. Then, I opened the back door, placed the vase right by the door, and then stepped back cause it was way too cold to be taking pictures right by the door. I clutched my bigger lens, the one that can take pictures at big distance. I stood at the other end of the kitchen and snapped these pictures. 

I actually took this from the other end of the kitchen. And I guess the white background worked. Only if there was more light, but it was getting dark outside.