Garden Glory

The Late Autumn morning light provides different images of old familiar subjects - these three are taken with what has become my favourite Macro lens - the SMC Pentax A 100mm f2.8 Macro :

1. Lavender Bokeh



2. Raspberry Leaf



3. Physalis Backlit



Comments and Criticisms welcome

The second one is so delicate and the oof parts don't distract IMO. Lovely lighting on no 3 and focus in the right place giving maximum effect. First one, whilst the light is great, lacks the focal point sharpness for me.

Love the bokeh in the first but the third is a cracker.

Me too. There's some wonderful light around presently and these made good use of it.

Agreed!

Yep, for me as well

The first one doesn't work for me, I think that there's too much in the image - maybe a tighter square crop around the flower head? I love the colours in the second one, beautiful and delicate. The third - as others have said, it's a cracker.

Phil

Is this one an improvement on the first image...




...agreed it's a very busy background and the point of focus isn't well defined enough, I couldn't get the plane of focus right at maximum aperture and stopping down impacts the Bokeh significantly. Thanks for all the comments - good to have a few more eyes to help improve things

On the other hand, why should there always be a point of focus? You could get rid of the lavender altogether and just have a totally impressionistic, out of focus abstract that just hints at a reality which can't quite be grasped. I think it would work for me.

Of the other two, no. 3 is quite stunning. Can't get excited about no. 2 though, the colours are gorgeous but the foreground OOF leaves are too distracting.

Steve

The leaf patterns in 2 make it the more interesting shot for me (though, as has been said, the light in 1 & 3 is great).

Yup, adding my name to the list... super detail though all round...

Best