Little Flower

[Mike Moats]

I bought my wife some flowers for her birthday (and for me to shoot) and they had these little flowers that I liked. I shot this with my Tamron 60mm Macro and a 25mm extension tube. It was small and needed to get in close to fill the frame. Focused on the front petals and shot wide open. In this close and wide open gives a nice shallow DOF for a soft look. Light coming in from overhead gave the flower a glow.

Fuji S5, f/2.8

[Julie Kenward]

Almost looks like a small african daisy, Mike. Beautiful and soft...it's what I love about floral! The light purples and the darker greens work beautifully together and the focus is right at the perfect point on the flower. I can almost smell it...

[Indranil Sircar]

I too like the colors and the softness. Light and the shallow DOF makes this such a wonderful composition.

[Allen Sparks]

wonderful composition and colors. very artistic.

[Harshad Barve]

Very impressive image Mike
TFS

[Ken Childs]

Mike, a great comp and I love the soft look. What type of lighting was used?

[Mike Moats]

Hey All, thanks for comments. Ken it was natural light with a overhead incandesent ceiling light in the kitchen.

[Kaushik Balakumar]

Love the soft look Mike. Very neatly composed frame.

[Vida van der Walt]

This is beautiful Mike. The colours are wonderful and I love the light, dof and softness.:)

[Roman Kurywczak]

Hey Mike,
You know I usually don't like soft focus....unless done very well....which this is! Just super use of shallow DOF. I'm playing right now with the drops.....may have to go out and get some flowers B4 the rest of the snow comes in! That bit of well placed green is just terrific!