After more than a hundred photos posted, this is my first classic style macro photo of a flower.
So, since so many of you do a beautiful job with macros - critiques, mud-slinging, and catcalls are welcome ;-) Seriously, any tips would be great!
| camera | Canon PowerShot S5 IS |
| exposure mode | full manual |
| shutterspeed | 1/125s |
| aperture | f/3.5 |
| sensitivity | ISO80 |
| focal length | 66.8mm |
| resolution | 3264x2448 pixels |
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An ordinary subject
After more than a hundred photos posted, this is my first classic style macro photo of a flower. So, since so many of you do a beautiful job with macros - critiques, mud-slinging, and catcalls are welcome ;-) Seriously, any tips would be great!
comments (23)
Pretty hibiscus!
Relaxing image, Jewlya.
Pure beauty!
Excellent capture!
I give up. That is too beautiful. Time to throw my camera away. The yellow on blue is exquisite. The light- too perfect.
more than realistic- very satured colors for a fantastic effect
This is exquisite Jewlya. Perfect shot: lighting, colours, DOF, details...
Just perfect!!!!
well my tip is....keep shooting em...as this is wonderful Jewlya
This is lovely Jewlya. Some would not like the background particularly the bright green band, some even would not like the blue. I confess I find the green distracting. But the lighting on the flower is wonderful. The petals could be sharper as the autofocus has picked on the foreground leaf and the base of the flower and made that the sharpest element in the picture.
Well taken, Jewlya. The colour is outstanding and catches one's attention easily.
Very good shot here. love the colours
I like all the colours, and at the same time they are competing of my attention....
Beautiful shot...you've captured the colors very well. Everything about it is nice.
Love the yellow in this shot. Great job with the lighting and exposure too. Excellent picture.
Great bokeh in this shot and the lighting on the flower is very pleasing. I'm not crazy about the composition though...
An extraordinary picture, though. Superb colours. Well done.
Jewlya, you see, all those comments...I like to add, great macro, superb lighting and colors, great DOF......a very well job!! Love it.
Wonderful macro with beautiful colours.
I think Bill's critique on the picture holds valid points, especially about which parts are sharp and which should be sharper.
The essential of good macro's is a tripod. With steadiness not an issue you can concentrate on sharpness. You need to get the aperture narrower (f-stop a much larger number - f32 would be ideal) and the ISO higher - e.g. ISO400. With the high f-stop the shutterspeed will come down dramatically - the higher ISO will partly compensate for that. Bear in mind that I do not know your camera. Some cameras can't go f32 or ISO400. Some produce very grainy pictures at higher ISO. But I think I have sketched the general direction. The main point is first to get the subject in focus - the whole flower from the side. Then you can start working on better compositions. Rule of thirds works for macro's as well, except when you fill the whole frame. Focus from the side should be sharp. If you are shooting into the 'mouth' of the flower it is less important that you have allover focus, but concentrate on pollen apparatus. A caterpiller that has it's whole length open to the lens will be much easier to focus on, than a head-on shot. Same with all the other beasts. A coin on a table you shoot right from above to get everything in focus. At an angle you will have focus issues to work with. Great effort here.
I'm no specialist on macro flowers, but this looks fine to me. I think the bold colours make this one stand out from the crowd.
Ingrid
An EXTRAordinary subject when you think about it.
This is natural free beauty we can see around us if we do the effort to look around!
brilliant use of light and colour (yellow and complementary blue)
maybe a tighter crop/closer zoom would've pleased stan or maybe simply (or otherwise ...and yeah, the rule of thirds thingy
very colorful.
la foto es magnífica y con una cámara no profesional tiene mucho más mérito, aunque pienso que también habrá experimentado un buen trabajo de photoshop. Enhorabuena en ambos casos.
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