Life in Thorns

[Krishna Prasad kotti]

I made this image at my Home in UT. Cactus which gifted to my wife has some flowers which I chose to photograph using my Macro lens.


Nikon D850, Sigma 150 Macro, 12mm +20mm Extension tubes
1/25 sec; f/5.6; ISO 1250
Manual; Matrix metering
11 images stacked in photoshop.

Background is from First Image.

Hope you like it.

Let me know your thoughts and comments.

Thanks
Krishna

[David Cowling]

Very nice colourful image. I like the background but can't understand why, if this is a stacked image , so many parts of the flower are out of focus. Where you using a tripod and stacking head or where you hand holding?

[Krishna Prasad kotti]

Camera was on Tripod. I did not use any Stacking head. I manually changed the focus and hence the issue I guess. Stacking was done based on Focusing on the edge of the flower.

[Ravi Hirekatur]

very nice. I like the background also. Agree with a few petals being out of focus. with manual focusing, it is hard to get everything in focus. Nice colors and the important parts of the flower are in good focus.

[Jonathan Ashton]

Krishna I like the selective focus it makes for an interesting image - good thinking! If you still have the master stacked file maybe consider unmasking the centre of the flower.
I don't know if you did anything different when posting but the text after the first line i.e. after "Macro lens" is black on grey and very difficult to read.