I'm working on my f3.5.....unsuccesfull so far......so here's another of the blooms I brought indoors. The colors of this Dahlia are what caught my eye....seemed a perfect fir for the black BG. Do realize that when working indoors it is very easy to change that to any color BG.....even natural looking.......and the working height is always a bonus. My wife is back from Florida......so I had to clean up the dining room table.....after I gave her the flowers of course!
Canon Mark 3 with the Sigma 180mm macro. Bright overcasr sidelight with the pot lid and silver reflector adding bounce for 1.6 seconds at f32 and ISO 100 all tripod mounted. I had rotated this to a vert.....but somehow I prefer the horizontal....so that's what I posted. Thoughts?
Roman, the stem doesn't come from the right place for a vert -- but I would consider it if you rotated the image a bit for the stem to come out of the bottom edge when shown as a vert. Lighting and bounce are great here. With the depth of the petals here, you need the smaller aperture. Wonderful image!
Now if you'd just work outside with a little breeze, you'd learn to love f/3.5!
Well, it isn't going to win you the BPN hat but it might sell as a poster. Sheesh, you're getting good at this macro/flora thing. Maybe you should leave that silly old landscape forum behind and come play with us full time!
Either version works for me. Yours has more of the silver undertones and Dave's has the perfect whites. Either way it's gorgeous and the lighting is undetectable but totally makes the image shine. Nicely done my friend!
Still stuck on f32!
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