Garlic Flower

[Ray Walker]

Canon 450D, 105 macro with extender tubes. f/14, iso 400, s/s1/160, manual mode, flash.

[Jonathan Ashton]

This would be a tricky subject for most people taken at this angle. You have quite a distance from the tip of the stamens going down and I suspect you have focused manually something around the ovary and chosen a small aperture. I think the problem is nothing is quite in perfect focus.
I would suggest using a tripod and cable release and either stacking several images or perhaps consider going for say f8 and differentially focusing. Hope this helps.

[John Robinson]

A agree with Jon on this one. - a hard subject at this angle. Stacking would be the answer. Nice backdrop too, so it wouldmake an interestingsubject.
Cheers
Jon

[Ray Walker]

Thanks for the comments and suggestions.The pic was hand held. All have been locked away, as I am very new to this type of photography as I only got my tubes at Xmas.