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    Re: Simple Poppys

    Okay..............Now I am just plain confused..............does this go with flowers.......birds......or insects (I was setting up for bumblebees)

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    Re: Simple Poppys

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    That's really nice, Peter.

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    Re: Macro flower

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    I love my 100mm macro and I am always trying to get closer. What do you think?Macro flower photographs
    Sunflower, from up-close!
    Very, very nice! I never can seem to get a good focus that close. I'm jealous.

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    Re: Macro flower

    Quote Originally Posted by johnbharle View Post
    Very, very nice! I never can seem to get a good focus that close. I'm jealous.
    Hello John, thank you kindly for you comment. When it comes to shooting flowers, the morning light does a great job at lighting all the littles spaces that would normaly be too dark to be seen. Of course, a good tripod and no wind helps a lot. My camera allows me to inlarged the view on the screen to fine focus before I press the shutter. The pivoting screen is easy on the eye and the back.

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    I also am working on getting good focus with very close-up images. This is the center of an Asiatic Lily which actually turned out pretty well. This is the first time I used my Nikon SB200 flash for micro. Attached it to my tripod with a small gorilla pod! I think it helped to get better depth of field to have the flash.

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    This is a cropped image of the center of the same flower, to show the elements (pistil and stamens) in more detail.

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    Made an effort to get a flower with a bee, this one turned out the best. The DOF of the flower wasn't so good, because I was mostly interested in the bee, so I cropped it. The flower parts the bee was sitting on turned out pretty good. Flower is aptly named Bee Balm (Mondarda)!

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    If the rain will stop for a while, I would like to practice more with the macro while there are still flowers and insects to photograph. It has been pretty cool weather though, which doesn't hurt.

    Susan

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    Susan, I enjoyed your three photos. The first two are good and sharp despite the degree of magnification especially in the second one.

    Were you using a tripod for the camera or just for the flash? What focal length was your lens?

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    Produced from 4 shot stack taken at 1:1 ratio with 105mm macro fitted with 36mm tube. Images opened in ViewNX with -0.3 EV to each and converted to 16 bit Tiffs. Stacked in CombineZP 'Pyramid Do Stack' mode and processed in Elements 7. F11, 1/60th, ISO200

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    Re: Macro flowers

    Quote Originally Posted by Cantab View Post
    Susan, I enjoyed your three photos. The first two are good and sharp despite the degree of magnification especially in the second one.

    Were you using a tripod for the camera or just for the flash? What focal length was your lens?
    Bruce, thank you for the comments. Yes, I used a tripod for the camera, with the gorilla-pod attached to the tripod with the flash. My lens is a Sigma 150mm f/2.8 macro (Nikon mount) - an older model without VR that I purchased pre-owned.

    The first photo is pretty much the same size as I snapped it, just a little editing to bring up the exposure a bit.
    The second photo is cropped from a photo that was taken much closer than the first, but I wanted to emphasize the pistil and stamens.
    I know the bee picture isn't that sharp, but it was my first serious effort to get a bee. I have a few flowers with ants that aren't too bad, but ants are so much smaller, it is easier to get them in focus. But ants don't have all those interesting fuzzy parts!

    Thanks again.

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    A rose

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    Playing with off camera flash

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    Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II
    Focal Length 100mm
    Exposure 1/80
    F Number f/7.1
    ISO 100

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    Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II
    Focal Length 100mm
    Exposure 1/320
    F Number f/4.5
    ISO 100

    A little "Surface Blur" to add that dreamy effect ..
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    Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II
    Focal Length 100mm
    Exposure 1/200
    F Number f/5.6
    ISO 100

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    Re: Playing with off camera flash

    Susan we're not picking on ya, well...maybe just a little.
    I usually don't do flowers but I was doing a bokeh comparison using this backyard flower as a subject.
    RAW image in LR is kinda plain looking...

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    But...with a little PP, this is the results

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    I am not suggesting that it is up to par with the others herein...just to show what PP can do.

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    Re: A rose

    Quote Originally Posted by Franci View Post
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    Francesca, I enjoyed looking at this photo. There are hard shadows on the rose but for me the image works well--perhaps because of those shadows?.

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    Re: Playing with off camera flash

    Quote Originally Posted by BJ Denning View Post
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    Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II
    Focal Length 100mm
    Exposure 1/80
    F Number f/7.1
    ISO 100

    Macro flower photographs
    Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II
    Focal Length 100mm
    Exposure 1/320
    F Number f/4.5
    ISO 100

    A little "Surface Blur" to add that dreamy effect ..
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    Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II
    Focal Length 100mm
    Exposure 1/200
    F Number f/5.6
    ISO 100
    Bryan, I particularly liked the first picture. It's elegant, and there are no signs of bugs or black spot on the leaves (unlike some of my roses).

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    Re: Playing with off camera flash

    Chauncey, nice PP. That structure of the leaves comes out good. Still, you could probably do this in colour too. The material is already there, just need to bring it out.

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    Bryan, I particularly liked the first picture. It's elegant, and there are no signs of bugs or black spot on the leaves (unlike some of my roses).
    I am quite fond of the third rose Bryan, nice detail in there.

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    Clicked at my place

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    Clicked at my place ......

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