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It's time for another entry here in Photography Lovers community and this post is a drastic change of theme from my previous posts. As you can see in the links of my previous posts below, I'm into Landscape photography and that's because I'm a travel blogger.
I guess you can say I got comfortable with taking landscape pictures for my travel blog that I always convinced myself that I'm not really a photographer because there's no variety in my photos. Do you get that sort of vibe? Now, I finally dared to get serious into photography.
I'm a week now into my photography class (told you I'll get serious) and there's nothing new so far. It's still more of history and basic stuff, but I would love to learn all those things.
I decided to upload something new because I wanted to track my progress (or the lack thereof) as I dive deeper into this rabbit hole. I wanted to compare my works as I'm trying to find out my photography style. As for this theme, since I couldn't find a good subject that's near me and I don't want to go out yet, my mother's plant collection became the newest victim of my obsession. Here we go!
Don't ask me the names of these plants because I really don't know. I only knew roses and jasmine. That's it. As for the rest of those fancy names, I didn't mind.
The term "plantitos" and "plantitas" became a common tongue that's associated with those who became obsessed with gardening during the lockdown. My mother is one of them. She started collecting plants to keep herself busy. However, I would say she's an OG plantita because she has been into plants even before.
I remember our house in Negros was not fancy, but people would admire it because of the plants. She was once obsessed with orchids and vandas, and then euphorbias, and then now she's into caladiums, aglaonemas, and aroids. Of course, roses and daisies were always present. She just rekindled with her old hobby recently so her collection is not yet that many. If you're planning to ask me where are those plants in my photos, please don't. I don't want to stress myself.
It has been raining a lot lately especially during the night, hence the droplets in the photos. I love taking photos of the water droplets during early mornings while my mother was tending the plants. She's been dealing with those hairy caterpillars that are eating her plants recently.
I had difficulty in focusing the shots especially in the close-up ones, but it was a fun experience and it made me look forward to waking up early to look for something new and interesting to take. I made it a fun exercise since I don't really have much to do throughout the day.
I really don't have any prejudices about these photos yet. I just want to share them as is. I'll check this post later on make my own judgment and maybe make a similar post with maybe a different set of editing styles. For now, let me just share this for your consumption. You can comment down below whatever you want to say. I'm open to any comment as long as they're genuine.
Here some more shots:
I guess that's all for this post. I'll definitely share more photos in this community in the future as I continue with my own process and exploration. Thanks for reaching this far!
Kim Ybañez
Welcome to Kim's small corner in Hive. He is a chemical engineer by profession, but a blogger by passion. He is a wanderlust and an adventure seeker. Join his quests as he visits secluded destinations, climbs mountains, tries new and exotic dishes, and explores his country (The Philippines) and the rest of the world even if he's still a poor corporate slave with tons of bills to pay and two siblings to support in college.
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I loved your photographs.
Capture the flowers in macro, every detail of the collection of plants of her mother, share it with us.
Thanks! I'm still trying to figure out how to take shots in macro tho.
Hey man you have a lot of potential, I can say that!
As you wrote, that you don't consider yourself as a photographer, I could share the same opinion for me. I am more a traveler I would say. I like animal and people photography beside landscape, but mostly during travels.
I have only few photos of flowers, or macro for example. And I can tell mine are not nearly as good as yours.
So to return at the begining, you have great potential. I am sure progress will be huge with this photography course you are taking...
This is spot on! I feel like you can't go wrong with taking pictures during your travels as long you know the basics of photography like the rule of two-thirds. That's why I don't really consider myself as a photographer because I feel like it's too much. I feel like I'm too pretentious when I say I'm a photographer when I don't really understand the inner workings of my camera.
Whut? I don't believe you. Your photos are superb! My photos of flowers are okay, but for macro, it's very difficult to focus. I wanted to pursue those stuff. I want to know how to take good macro shots. I don't really feel anything about my photos. It's like meh, they're not that amazing.
@acidyo said it's like learning how to read after writing a book. 😂
I wanted to learn what makes a photograph a good photograph. I also wanted to learn portrait photography because I feel I suck at that. I hope I can continue with the lessons until the end.
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ENGAGEtokens.Beautiful photos! You have a keen eye for spotting and capturing beauty.
I learned something new from you once again. 😊 I didn't know about the term plantitos and plantitas. After the lockdown, I received many FB invites to garden company pages of friends who swore in the past they didn't have a green thumb. It makes me happy to see their green side. They suddenly transformed their idle backyards into gardens growing beautiful plants, vegetables, and flowers and selling them.
🥰 Thank you! Haha. Didn't know I have that.
They're trending on Twitter. With celebrities showing off their very expensive collection. Meanwhile, my mother just asks for cuttings from our neighbours and friends. And then she said she will propagate them and then sell them. I said by the time she would be able to sell, it won't be a trend anymore. 😂
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I think I had never stopped to look at your content before, it's very good and your photos are very great, I like that reading your post I see that you like to check your own content to improve, that's something pretty good, I came here because I saw the flowers, I like to see flowers, everything looks completely wonderful and that it was rained and you have captured those drops on the plants looks very pleasant, it gives me a feeling of calm to observe your photos, personally I liked
😮 Thank you for stopping by! It warms my heart to know that you feel calm after looking at my photos. I will share more photos like those in the future when I learn more in my photography class. I hope you'll like them.
Oh, that's cool !!!!!
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Aba pumophotography kana rin kim ba pero infairness maganda kuha mo. Pinatingkad mo ang kulay at nakafocus. Maganda, nakarami kana ha.hahaha
That's how you do it. You learn and improve and then find some other things to try. Haha. I'm not yet into finance and movie reviews, but I will surely dip my toes in those areas. I'm planning to take a course in coursera about proper English writing to achieve those.
aba maganda yan kim ah, sabagAy andyan kana sa blogging succes. Kunting giwang lang at perfect na talaga.
Still working hard and improving. Never settling for anything less.
Ang ganda ng shots mo. Ano ang gamit mong camera?
Thank you po! Fujifilm X-T100 po.
nice shots. I like them.
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Thanks!
That´s a very impressive collection of flower close ups. Your skills have been improving greatly :) I think I will do a similar post, if you don´t mind :)
Thank you! I'm getting serious with this. 😂
Of course, I won't mind. I would love to see your collection.
Alright :) First part coming tomorrow :)
Wow, you have some beautiful photos of plants here, I love pics of leaves with water drop on ..nice shots
Thanks! It's been raining a lot here in the Philippines so I took advantage of it. I'm glad you liked them.