Macro flower photographs

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Originally Posted by Nicola

yes, it worked well :)
and yes, they are big.
I tried to turn their dimention to a benefit for me...

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Nice. And you have a yellow inside. The ones I found were dark. They are beautiful flowers and they look best in big fields full of them. Alas I live in Holland, so not much chance of that:D

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Originally Posted by TobyMac

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I like the colours on this one, very nice detail as well.

Thanks Peter :)

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A rose (I am not sure on the variety though)

I guess you sometimes have to make a decision, though I am usually quite incapable!

For the first one, it was decided that it was a flower with a spider present rather than vice versa!

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Echinops sphaerocephalus

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i don't have the resources for a dedicated macro lens, instead i use 2 exten tubes with a "hand me down" Canon 70-200mm F4L USM set between 100 to 135mm dependent on the flower diameter; this is a small blossom on a branch overhanging a fence

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this small flower is the only redeeming aspect of a vine that spreads relentlessly

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Nasturtiums don't get the respect adulated on roses perhaps because of their more demure size; if one takes a moment to peruse these subtle wonders they might become "pin up" beauties

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Miniscule Beauty: this very small weed flower is 1/8 inch wide, its stamens are 1/64 inch in width, their supporting structures are less than a human hair's width

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Nasturtiums don't get the respect adulated on roses perhaps because of their more demure size; if one takes a moment to peruse these subtle wonders they might become "pin up" beauties

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I like all of them Robert, but these colours look very good against the black.

A couple from my recent trip. They aren't exactly macro but they are flowers ;)

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very small central disc inside trumpet like yellow flower, this flower is very unremarkable except for its inner detail & markings

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looking down into the throat of the yellow flower before cropping, the yellow peripheral color is the upper 1/3 of the flower forming the splayed out petals; f/10 with 2 exten tubes + the 70-300mm set @ 90mm

re: close up filters, i used to use a Sony DSC-H2 with an inexpensive set of closeup filters, i was constantly plagued with chromatic aberrations around a flowers petal periphery, this ended when i acquired a Canon 250D closeup diopter lens,its a bit pricey but it has 2 elements 1 which corrects for chromatic abberation

very nice angular aspect & color rendition were it not for the distracting foreground green leaf in the red flower's midpoint; the background whitish "flare" artifacts are really unsettling also

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Originally Posted by Kalimah

Trying to hone my macro shooting skills.
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very nice angular aspect & color rendition were it not for the distracting foreground green leaf in the red flower's midpoint; the background whitish "flare" artifacts are really unsettling also; the background though blurred is a bit "busy" for my tastes; you might try interposing your own background with a dark color fabric like a shirt when you experience a "challenging" background

This is one of my favorites of a Bee Balm in our hummingbird garden.

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Snow Pea alongside our driveway:

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-mike

I like the texture of flowers in the last days of their existence.
They're different and have a beauty of their own.
Graham
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