DPC #3 -- Flowers

Welcome Sanjuro.
A nice capture indeed.

Happy shooting

My entries:
1) Circle of life.



Minolta 28-135 @ 135mm, f5.6 800ASA 1/750sec. This flower was about 5-6 metres away and it was quite windy, so I used a high shutter speed to stop the flower from moving. This is therefore quite cropped! - but the uncropped version is a great photo also with lots of light and dark in the bokeh.

2) The Harvester.




This was taken with the same lens in the macro mode (thus 28mm) at f19 and using the onboard flash as a fill. Although I love this lens as a general purpose lens, I am not thrilled with it up really close (this is the first time I have tried to use it in macro mode) hence my post in the lens section about what macro lens to buy ;-). The orange "lumps" are pollen on the bee's feet.

Apart from cropping these photos have not been altered in any way. Call me old fashioned but I still like to set the photo and lighting up at the time of shooting and not afterwards.

Edited by natamambo

Title: Glowing Heart

Hello all,

I’m new here well maybe some of you already know me, I’m not very familiar with the forum system you have it seems it will take me a while to find my way around.

I had just added my review to the 100-400 Min. lens so here’s a shot from it.

Lens 100-400mm Min.

1/500s f/13.0 at 400.0mm iso200









Edited by aarif

Thank you Kiklop for you kind words and introduction, Sorry about the size I will do my best to make them smaller next time but that will be a bit hard because all my shots saved in pbase are about that size so each time I will need to resize them again and save them again in pbase, as you know the large size in pbase compresses the original and You do not get a good image with that compression only the original is sharp.

I would really like to take this opportunity to thank you all and specially brettania for all the help I received since my purchase of a 7D.





Thanks Again

Aarif

aarif wrote: Sorry about the size I will do my best to make them smaller next time

Thanks for understanding ;)

aarif wrote: as you know the large size in pbase compresses the original and You do not get a good image with that compression only the original is sharp.

Yes, I'm aware of that, and, again, I'm very grateful that you want to provide us with the best image quality you can.
However, to make things easier for most dyxum members you can embed a smaller version of the image and provide a link to the bigger size below it. That would be great; we will have the chance to see our forum without additional horizontal scrolling and at the same time we could easily see a "bigger picture" :)
Happy shooting

Title: Daffodil (#00577)
ISO: 100
Exposure: 4 seconds @ f11 (2 stops over exposed)
Meter: honey
Camera: Dynax 7D
Lens: Tamron SP 90mm f2.8 Di Macro
Filters: none
Crop: image is about 75% of the original image
Processing: Curves, "set white point" click on background to 'whiten' it
Image resized to 600x400:


Edited by DcapVividOptic

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