Macro flower photographs

[Franci]

I think you are spot on with the "Claytonia caroliniana" Very nice macro shot with your set-up, too!

Whatever the name, it is a great picure!

[Franci]

Beautiful anemone and its heart too, Peter

Here is a couple of wild anemones
Blue


and White

[Letrow]

Great shots Franci. Love the detail on those petals. Nice light too.

[Franci]

We walked 8 hours, and I too the pictures in the last 5 minutes, few meters from the car

[RaZZ3R]

May I join your photo gallery ? I don't know what species they are, I never was a good botanist, but I hope you like them:
#1

#2

#3

#4

#5


Spring comes early in Sicily ^_^

[kris]

May I join your photo gallery ? I don't know what species they are, I never was a good botanist, but I hope you like them:
Spring comes early in Sicily ^_^

Welcome Fabian. Nice shots.
My preferred is the #2.

Cheers
A.

[RaZZ3R]

Thanks,that one it's more of a close-up crop with a old M42 nifty fifty at minimum focus distance, I don't own a true macro lens, yet.

[kris]

.... I don't own a true macro lens, yet.

Most of my pictures are taken with 35mm or 25mm wide-angle lens.
Here is an example taken with the 35.0 mm f/2.0D Nikkor lens.



You will find others in my previous posts to this thread.

Cheers,
A.

[Letrow]

Welcome Fabian. Nice shots.
My preferred is the #2.

Cheers
A.

Number 3 for me. Nice shots Fabian.

[Letrow]

A few crocuses from my garden. We finally have some flowers outside, but it is a slow year so far.

[Franci]

Welcome Fabian, I also prefer your #3, and Peter's 1st shot. I like Andrea's crocuses, too.

[RaZZ3R]

Thanks all for the warm welcome, here are a few more, but not to many to spam the thread :P
#1

(A bit soft but I wanted to shoot wide open to get the "green gue bokeh")
#2

(I may not have a true macro lens but I do have enough macro tubes to get really close)
#3

(I don't know if this counts as a flower but is pink so why the hell not :P)
#4

(Nifty Fifty is my most use lens by far and I find it most useful)
#5

(This was one of my first photo when I started "obsessing" with "taking photos")
#6

(Same as above, I started shooting with a http://www.gsmarena.com/sony_ericsson_p990-1318.php back in the days)

[Letrow]

I like number 4 most in this series Fabian, nice composition somehow with those vague spots in the background. Your 2nd photo is a bit dark, it would have been nice to see that white pop out a bit more.

[RaZZ3R]

Thanks for the tip, those "vague spots" where so random that I only realize them after I got home with the pictures, I like shooting wide open but sometimes going down to f 4-5.6 give you some nice hexagonal light spots bokeh if you use them to your advantage, ex (off topic subject):


(I wanted to get him in focus but he was dropping, from a tree, really fast and all swirly so I had to open up the aperture for more DOF, but still fails just before he got on the ground, using manual focus lenses has it's disadvantages, still it's not all waysted shutter click ^_^)

[RaZZ3R]

Sorry about double post, deleted

[Letrow]

Thanks for the tip, those "vague spots" where so random that I only realize them after I got home with the pictures, I like shooting wide open but sometimes going down to f 4-5.6 give you some nice hexagonal light spots bokeh if you use them to your advantage, ex (off topic subject):

(I wanted to get him in focus but he was dropping, from a tree, really fast and all swirly so I had to open up the aperture for more DOF, but still fails just before he got on the ground, using manual focus lenses has it's disadvantages, still it's not all waysted shutter click ^_^)

Even with autofocus this might have been difficult if he was dropping that fast. By the way, if you are interested, there is also a spider (here) and an insect thread (here).

[Letrow]

A few flowers I shot last week





alstroemeria

[Franci]

Great shots Peter, and beautiful flowers. Yesterday I found one, but I could not identify it

[Letrow]

Looks a bit like anthrrhinium, but I'll try to check. Quite delicate, lovely.

[kris]

Today I was doing some tests, and we ended up discussing if this orchid looks better in colour.



or BW


I cannot decide yet, so I post both.