Macro flower photographs

[Letrow]

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

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

[TobyMac]

_MG_9751 by Tobias Weber, on Flickr

[Letrow]

_MG_9751 by Tobias Weber, on Flickr

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

[TobyMac]

Thanks Peter

[Letrow]

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

[Loose Canon]

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!

[Letrow]

Echinops sphaerocephalus

[elfbob]

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

[elfbob]

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

[elfbob]

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

[elfbob]

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

[Letrow]

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

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

[Ricco]

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

[elfbob]

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

[elfbob]

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

[elfbob]

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

[elfbob]

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

[elfbob]

Trying to hone my macro shooting skills.

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

[mikey98e]

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




Snow Pea alongside our driveway:



-mike

[GrahamH]

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