Trying Mikes suggestion of a lighter background for the tree orchid

[JBW]

I think the main thing with orchids is you have to have enough DOF to get the whole of a bloom in focus or you loose the delicacy of the flower.



For me, if you don't have that my eye is always going back and forth trying to see the part that isn't in focus.

This for me is the glory of photography and this group. Three very different approaches to the same dilemma and all of them with the possibility of 'WOW'.