Aroma | Flavor | Scent
Anyway the photo that came with the Good Smells daily email showed a tray of home made biscuits, fresh out of the oven. Now I'm saving a 'baking-something-nice-and-decadent' photo for another prompt that I know came a few days ago, or maybe it was a few weeks ago. Who knows, it is all going by way too fast. Can you believe it is almost Christmas? I figured I could make something for morning tea or dessert and use it for the photoblog CY365 prompt as well as for the food blog.
So, instead of taking a photo of cooking for good smells I decided to do more of what I like - yep, some close up shots of flowers. We planted two gardenia shrubs in front of our bedroom sometime early last year. This year they are both in full flower and the smell that drifts in is just beautiful. I've played around with different types of processing, but haven't made up my mind which one I like best, so I'm going to put up a few.
The other component of the daily email was to use a lens that you don't normally use, or to use a normal lens for something different, which is something I do tend to do. These photos were all shot using my macro lens, but they aren't really macro photos. The macro lens has allowed me to get up quite close to catch the detail but I've not gone as close as I could. The macro lens is quite a lovely high quality lens and I have used it for portraits and other shots as well as for any really close up macro work. Similarly, I have used my telephoto zoom lens to get close up shots.