First flower

• sean1098

  Member

  September 16, 2007 at 8:02 pm

  A picture i took during tha weekend,not great,but comment’s welcome.

  

  Sean.
  jb7

  Participant

  September 17, 2007 at 8:41 am

  Well it looks like you’ve discovered that focus is quite tricky with small things-
  It may not have changed the picture too much to have placed the camera parallel with the flower head-
  which might have placed the plane of sharp focus on the petals-

  As it is, the stem looks in focus, and its a bit of a distraction-

  Looks like there wasn’t a lot of light,
  so that can’t have helped-
  so you’ve done good here-

  Wheelies, flowers-
  none of it is easy, you know :D

  j
  beef

  Participant

  September 17, 2007 at 11:33 am

  Hmm, tis a bit soft where you would expect it to be sharp alright. A tripod and manual focus may have been the way to go here? A plain dark background such as the one used in Josephs recent shot might also give the flower more impact I think…

  cheers,
  beef
  sean1098

  Member

  September 17, 2007 at 3:37 pm

  jb7 wrote:

  Well it looks like you’ve discovered that focus is quite tricky with small things-
  It may not have changed the picture too much to have placed the camera parallel with the flower head-
  which might have placed the plane of sharp focus on the petals-

  As it is, the stem looks in focus, and its a bit of a distraction-

  Looks like there wasn’t a lot of light,
  so that can’t have helped-
  so you’ve done good here-

  Wheelies, flowers-
  none of it is easy, you know :D

  j

  Thank’s for comments,Yes im trying every tning at the moment..i actually bought a new macro lense,before i went to dublin for the weekend,but was not happy with the results.So i went back to Jessops today.And it turns out,that the lense i was given,was not a full macro.

  Thank god i thought,as 450 i paid for it,i was expecting better preformance.

  But they were good about it,and let me change to a real macro lense for a few pound more. :D :D

  Sean.
  sean1098

  Member

  September 17, 2007 at 3:38 pm

  beef wrote:

  Hmm, tis a bit soft where you would expect it to be sharp alright. A tripod and manual focus may have been the way to go here? A plain dark background such as the one used in Josephs recent shot might also give the flower more impact I think…

  cheers,
  beef

  Will try this in the coming few days,

  thank’s
  sean.