Fun with Macro

[bradrjames]

Nothing to do on a rainy Saturday afternoon.

Any tips would be appreciated.

[perfectoarts]

Hi Brad, nice try. I really like the 3rd one. It works perfectly.
The first one I would have changed my point of view, the out of focus leaf covers too much of the main subject & is a bit distracting.
The middle one, a beautiful subject, colour and composition, but a little out of focus. Perhaps you should maybe try spot metering and also change to centre focus. I might be wrong, perhaps someone else can set you straight on this. These are my thoughts on it.
BTW Which lens did you use?

[bradrjames]

Hi Brad, nice try. I really like the 3rd one. It works perfectly.
The first one I would have changed my point of view, the out of focus leaf covers too much of the main subject & is a bit distracting.
The middle one, a beautiful subject, colour and composition, but a little out of focus. Perhaps you should maybe try spot metering and also change to centre focus. I might be wrong, perhaps someone else can set you straight on this. These are my thoughts on it.
BTW Which lens did you use?

Hi Ingrid

Thanks for your kind words and feedback :-)

Your right about the first shot, I tried to move but I had leaves either side of me and I did not want to disturb the water droplets as they were so perfectly lined up. I did tak a couple of other shots of this and they had the leaf in front as even more of a distraction.I have included another shot I took.
With the middle shot I was trying to focus on the stamen, this was hard as it is fairly dark.From memory I was using an apature of 2.5 I perhaps should have made this a bit deeper dept of field and shot it at 4.0 to get more of the flower in focus.

Thanks for your comment about the 3rd image, I was really happy with this one as well.

The lens I was using was my Canon EF 50mm 1:2.5 I love this lens, Macro is so much fun.

Thanks again

Brad