Macros take 2
Better this time! I got my adapter on the lens I wanted to use. It doesn’t fit very snug and blew off once but it’s way easier to shoot and I like the results better. However it was really windy, do you know how hard it is to do sharp macros in the wind? :{
I started playing with aperture priority. The pics below have basically been cropped, possibly straightened, and maybe sharpened a tad. No real change to color/saturation, this is how they came. I do not use Photoshop so I have very limited post-processing capabilities. Please tell me these are not Martha Stewart colors! I love these particular lillies for the range of color. I actually drove back home to get my camera when I saw they were in bloom.
I don’t like the crop on this one, but it’s difficult with the amount of vignetting I get from the macro adapter, and I really wanted to leave the teal color in the top right, I love that color.
Here’s an example of the vignetting I get at a wider angle. I guess I just have to choose between having to crop a bit, or having to put the adapter on the more telephoto lens and then dealing with the super shallow DOF and difficulty getting sharpness.
Same thing zoomed in farther and cropped square
I think this one was done without the macro adapter and with the 55-200mm lens on auto. I like the composition and wanted that second flower in the background. It was tricky having to be farther away and lean back to point up.
Crits welcome!
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Super cool photos, Lies. Those colors are unbelievable.
Look like Martha Stewart colors to me. Don’t you think so, Julie? Yeah—Martha on drugs! I like the last photo the best.
I like the teal also and was wondering what it’s coming from?
Liesje Reply:
July 8th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
I went out and looked. All I could think of was this evergreen bush that is sort of teal. I guess in bokeh it could look solid teal.