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Avid outdoorsman and underwater photographer, Barry Brown has spent the last seven years documenting life above and below water in Curacao, Netherlands Antilles. Focusing on the island's coral reefs, he has worked hand-in-hand with several businesses and environmental groups, including SECORE, a marine conservation organization based in the Netherlands. His image of a research submersible was recently featured on the cover of DIVER magazine.

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Jun 28, 10     Comments Off

Curacao Wildflowers 4

Hi friends, I have had so many requests for more Curacao Wildflowers so here you go again.  These are four more that I found either along side the road or out in the desert.  The red one is the flower that I brought home from Sunset Waters yesterday and re-potted it and it’s doing great!  Unfortunately I don’t have a clue what any of these are, possibly weeds??  If any of you have any time to surf the web or already know please send me a note and I will go back and label them all online.  Many have asked me what is the secret to shooting flowers?  Well really folks I am not a pro at flowers but am learning by trial and error.  For these small wildflowers you first need a tripod that is a must!  I am using a Nikon 105mm 2.8 macro lens but a 60mm would work nicely as well.  If your shooting flowers in the wild you will need a calm morning or evening with zero wind, moving flowers are a nightmare to shoot.  Find a flower with a nice background, just get on your knees and look behind it, the best backgrounds are typically dark so your flower really stands out.  I shoot a lot of mine at around 250 F-14 using a slow rear flash on just about every shot, flash is very important and if the flower is moving a little this will help to keep it sharp.  Normally I find if I shoot to low of an F-stop like F-5.6, thru F-8 the flower is not sharp enough, and if you go too much like F-22 your background will then start to become distracting, you just have to mess around with it and see the results for yourself.  Go out right after a rain shower, that is the best time as you get all those tiny droplets on everything, it’s really beautiful.  If you have any general questions I can help and if I don’t know the answer I bet I can find someone that does, good luck and most of all have fun!
 
It was an overcast day here in Curacao, it looked like it was going to rain almost all day but it never did although it looked like Venezuela was getting hit hard!  I’m out, busy day tomorrow, Barry
 

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