PP flowers

I got flowers last night! :D

Some fun with them

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Some more to come. Yes folks, bored today with it snowing :cry-an:

And this will be it. Hope you enjoy!

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Wowee Kat - I'm seeing great progress in your work and these are lovely.

I just love these subtle hues in shots 1 and 2.
My fave of the whole lot though is the first shot in post #2 based on the composition and sharpness of the opening flower.

Wow Kat...lovely shots!

Yep, what Marko said. especially the subtle coloring in the first two!

Thanks! I was having fun with dof, once again. The 50mm can be some trying when it comes to flower shots and wanting to get close..soon, soon I will get my zoom lens back. I was a bit surprised though, at f/11 to f/16 my images still didn't turn out as sharp as I wanted. I must of did something wrong. I will keep trying with the next lot of flowers my hubby brings home :)

what can i say. simply elegant

A very nice collection of images, kat. I especially like the first and fourth.

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Thanks! I was having fun with dof, once again. The 50mm can be some trying when it comes to flower shots and wanting to get close..soon, soon I will get my zoom lens back. I was a bit surprised though, at f/11 to f/16 my images still didn't turn out as sharp as I wanted. I must of did something wrong. I will keep trying with the next lot of flowers my hubby brings home :)

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It all depends on what you were expecting (and perhaps other factors like possible camera movement or subject movement during the exposure). To my eye, you got what you got based on aperture alone.

For maximum sharpness use the smallest aperture the lens has to offer. but EVEN then you may not get perfect sharpness from foreground to background. There is a big difference in sharpness from foreground to background when focusing on close subjects (to the lens), medium subjects and far ones. In general, the far subjects will be the easiest to attain the most sharpness from foreground to background. (This is why macro shots are so hard)

Hope that helps
Marko

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Originally Posted by marko

It all depends on what you were expecting (and perhaps other factors like possible camera movement or subject movement during the exposure). To my eye, you got what you got based on aperture alone.

For maximum sharpness use the smallest aperture the lens has to offer. but EVEN then you may not get perfect sharpness. There is a big difference in sharpness from foreground to background when focusing on close subjects (to the lens), medium subjects and far ones. In general, the far subjects will be the easiest to attain the most sharpness from foreground to background. (This is why macro shots are so hard)

Hope that helps
Marko

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Thanks marko. It makes sense. I used a tripod but on a carpeted room so there could of easily been movement. I don't have a remote yet, next on a big list of to gets. For now, just use the timer and hope for the best.

Like you said, I think the closeness I was at had a big impact. I went as close as the camera lens would allow me. Some shots I purposely put to extremes, figured that it would be neat to get some "not all of the photo in focus from front to back shots" but wanted to get some like that too.

Out of curiousity, can some lenses at the same settings, (ie f5.6 @ 200) produce different images when it comes to dof?

Gonna have to just keep plugging away!

Thank you!