Hibiscus

[Saorsa]

[bnnrcn]

It is beautiful Brian I like the colors, the details and the curves in the image. Not everything is in focus but it really doesn't matter for me .

[Saorsa]

It is beautiful Brian I like the colors, the details and the curves in the image. Not everything is in focus but it really doesn't matter for me .

I almost hate hibiscus because they are such a deep flower that it's hard to get the DOF to do them justice. Unfortunately, I live in the 'City of Hibiscus' and the beautiful things are everywhere in every color. If you like them try the History Park cultivars which commemorate Harry Goulding.

I've tried focus stacking but find that artificial. With a subject this complex you really need to pick the flower and I still am a field shooter at heart. Staging for a tabletop session isn't my thing.

[DanK]

Beautifully framed, and you captured the textures on the petals very well. Whatever lighting you used worked. The only negative, IMHO, is the out-of-focus anthers.

Re focus stacking: it's doable in the field if there is no wind, but it is hard. I have only a few stacked flower images from field shots on my site because it is rarely sufficiently wind-less around here. DOF is such a problem that I usually end up shooting indoors and stacking. (You don't always have to cut the flowers. My few hibiscus shots are from plants we raised indoors.) One of the few I stacked outdoors is on the home page of my site. It's a stack of three images, if I remember right. If you look carefully, you can see areas of slight blurriness from movement between shots.