Perpetual flower photo thread

Thank you blue! I have a few more to resize from Sunday so I can post them up.

Great shots everyone...
Jeff---love that flower picture!

Thought I would add another.
ISO 400 1/1000 @ f10.0 Canon 20D 18-55 kit lens.
Comments appreciated.

Was the soft focus effect intentional? - gives it a wonderfully dreamy feel... lazy days in the sun and meadows...Nice shot!

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Originally Posted by Geoff Chandler

Was the soft focus effect intentional? - gives it a wonderfully dreamy feel... lazy days in the sun and meadows...Nice shot!

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Thanks Geoff. The soft focus is probably due more to the 18-55 kit lens and resizing to fit here. I'm still not sure of the settings to use when I resize.

Dennis

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Originally Posted by D Thompson

Thanks Geoff. The soft focus is probably due more to the 18-55 kit lens and resizing to fit here. I'm still not sure of the settings to use when I resize.

Dennis

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Set your image size to say 750 pixels for the horizontal then it will fit on an 800 x 600 display

BTW what is 18-55???

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Originally Posted by StanStan

Set your image size to say 750 pixels for the horizontal then it will fit on an 800 x 600 display

BTW what is 18-55???

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Stan - thanks for the suggestion. I never know what to resize to as far as width, height, and resolution to get under the size limits.

The 18-55 is a Canon EFS 18-55mm f3.5 - 5.6. It is the kit lens that came with my Canon 20D.

Dennis

The camera exif for the following pictures in order are as follows:

1.Shooting Mode: Aperture-Priority AE | Tv: 1/250 | Av 1.8 | ISO 100
Digital Rebel XT w/Canon 50mm EF F/1.8

2.Shooting Mode: Aperture-Priority AE | Tv: 1/800 | Av 3.2 | ISO 100
Digital Rebel XT w/Canon 50mm EF F/1.8

3.Shooting Mode: Aperture-Priority AE | Tv: 1/800 | Av 3.2 | ISO 100
Digital Rebel XT w/Canon 50mm EF F/1.8

4.Shooting Mode: Aperture-Priority AE | Tv: 1/1250 | Av 3.2 | ISO 200
Digital Rebel XT w/Canon 50mm EF F/1.8

All pictures have been cropped and/or saved to 600x400 pixels and quality reduced for web showing...

I've experiment small aperture (f/8) with super macro on flowers. Here a sample :

http://sonyv3.free.fr/fl_macro_08.JPG

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Originally Posted by D Thompson

Stan - thanks for the suggestion. I never know what to resize to as far as width, height, and resolution to get under the size limits.Dennis

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Dennis:
More: Let the height fall where it may. There is a file size limit of 117kb on this site. So to get a decent picture post get near this limit without going over. In Photo Shop Elements I set the width to 750 pixels; ignore width in inches, ignore the pixel height and when saving I look at the file size and up or lower the picture quality till I get near the 117 limit. It would be nice if they allowed more resolution.
Easy to get the hang of it. BTW Did not get good results when saving to the web option.
Stan

Not impressed with this lens..... Focusing is a big issue. But this is the first shot with it.