thanks Speaklightly, it did have a little saturation boost and sharpened up the centre blossom a little in photoshop. So unfortunately i cant take all the credit. I am pleased with it though.
Many thanks for your contributions. They are all great - high detailed with fantastic colors. Let's hope that we can make this an ongoing thread, as we have so many fine flower macro examples.
What a cool thread! I bought my new digicam (Olympus C-60) mainly for doing close ups of flowers. I especially like surprising people with the results I can get with this simple little camera.
Being a professional gardener, I have many opportunities to capture blooms of all sorts, both wild & 'tame'.
One of my most elusive 'prey' that I managed to capture recently was the wild Calypso orchids that bloomed during a series of Spring storms we had here on the Calif. coast. I found a small 'window of opportunity' between downpours to 'shoot' this wily 'creature'.
I used my mini tripod, but these orchids are so close to the ground that I mounted the camera sideways & braced the folded-up tripod on the ground to get these shots, so I guess it's sort of semi hand-held. After about an hour & 70+ shots later, I came home muddy, wet & thrilled to have gotten about 10 'keepers' out of the batch.
I guess this is why some people think photographers are 'kinda nutty' sometimes,huh?
Here is my contribution to the flower thread. This was taken with my Canon D60. ISO of 100, using a 30-80 lens, hand-held, on landscape setting. hope you like.
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Macro maniac!
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