Roses (Photocentric) (Updated)

Over the last weekend my mom seemingly found her camera. My mom often does this, letting her camera sit and gather dust for months at a time, then "finding" it and plays with it as it it's brand new again. It's a little Canon A570is and it still takes some pretty good pictures given how old it is (some 3 or 4 years old) and it's infrequent use. And more importantly it continually impresses my mom, though the fact that it gets forgotten for such long periods of time probably plays into that also. Her latest subject were of some roses she had recently planted. I think over the course of a day I received some 20 (supposedly) different emailed photos of one white rose in blossom. (Thanks iPhoto for making that so easy to do.) So I thought I'd give it a go. Though the shots I did were HDR shots, and taken with a different camera. White roses, outside, while still on the bush were actually quite difficult to photograph. My camera had a hard time focusing on it and was having a hard time capturing the details of the petals, which is why I opted to go for an HDR shot to hopefully bring out some of that lost detail.

One of the great things about Blogger is being able to write a post and schedule it for publication at a later date. I felt the need to try my hand once more at a shot and really liked how this new one turned out, so I'm updating this post to add this last shot. HDR processed with a little Lens Effect processing to better direct the focus.