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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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  1. Shane & Jaime
    June 30th, 2009 at 18:51 | #1

    Super cool photos, Lies. Those colors are unbelievable.

  2. June 30th, 2009 at 19:51 | #2

    Look like Martha Stewart colors to me. Don’t you think so, Julie? Yeah—Martha on drugs! I like the last photo the best.

  3. Chris
    July 1st, 2009 at 14:12 | #3

    I like the teal also and was wondering what it’s coming from?

    • July 8th, 2009 at 16:04 | #4

      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.

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