Luckily I only need to walk out my front door during the early spring to get to tulips. Most are of the usual variety but we have one particular plant that blooms 4-5 flowers simultaneously (rather than one), deep fiery orange, and pointed petals kinda like a candle's flames. It is the jewel in our tulip crown Experimented with many aperture settings and found this one to be most appealing for my tastes for closeups.
Canon 7D + 100mm f/2.8 macro, manual exposure, evaluative metering, 1/60s., f/5.6, ISO 800, onboard flash @ +1 FEC, manual focus using the "rocking" technique, FF.
I am a huge fan of super close-ups and this is great! I really like the slivers of in-focus bits and the large areas of soft, saturated color. Very nice composition with the soft curves of the petals framing the inner parts.
Undulating petals like this are always very appealing.
I wonder if you considered cropping in a bit from the left, to eliminate those two dark segments at mid to mid-upper level in the frame. I find they pull by eye from the central theme of the image.
Love the riich colors and selective focus. My eyes are begging for more room at the bottom.
BIRDS AS ART Blog: great info and lessons, lots of images with our legendary BAA educational Captions; we will not sell you junk. 30+ years of long lens experience/e-mail with gear questions.
BIRDS AS ART Online Store: we will not sell you junk. 35 years of long lens experience. Please e-mail with gear questions.
Check out the new SONY e-Guide and videos that I did with Patrick Sparkman here. Ten percent discount for BPN members,