You raise an excellent point. Even the slightest breeze can move your subject flowers around a bit. I like to shoot very early or late in the afternoon to minimize the breezes and for the best lighting.
[QUOTE=Bluedog]but its a challenge outdoors with the slightest bit of wind blowing ...
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Very true and then there is the problem of getting creaky joints to manoeuvre the photographer to flower level ;-) and then there is standing up again ;-)
However, just to prove that I do venture forth from my "cardboard box studio" here are some snakes head fritillaries. Canon A80, exp. 1/500s, ap. f/4.5, image cropped quite heavily. Pity the leaf got in the way :-(
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Wombat
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Here's another of mine learning with the Sigma 18-125mm under semi cloudy morning light taken yesterday
I like this shot of the petunias? especially the composition and the "duskiness" of the whole shot. I suspect this was due to the cloudy conditions and therefore lack of strong shadows - suits the pink of the petunia to my way of thinking.
The tulips are great - socks you in the eye with all those jazzy yellows and reds. The strong light seems to suit these flowers.
I suspect there is a lesson for me to learn here about different flowers favouring different light sources. I seem to remember that light colours in gardens show up best towards dusk. So much to learn and try. ;-)
Many thanks for some fine macro examples. Yes, I agree we can learn a bit from each example that we see and in the process fine tune our own technique bit by bit.
I'm not big on the whole taking flower marcros per se, but it was nice outside, so I took my first flower macro (barely) with my new Canon SD500 just to see how it would do. Kind of a pathetic flower...
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