Oh yes! The word is indeed 'delicateness'. A really lovely set. The buttercup and the last one slightly stand out for me, but that's not to diminish the others.

Steve

Well seen, well lit. Both work for me. The first says mysterious and slightly uncomfortable, second cousin to the multi-headed Hydra of Greek myth. The second says energy and excitement, a firework display in a flower. Take your pick!

Steve

What a transformation! Are you sure you didn't add a pinch of magic, too?

And the bridge is now so clear that it justifies the title.

Steve

That's very good indeed . Can't have been easy! I bet you didn't do it at 1.55am though...

Steve

There's definitely a 'look' to the backgrounds that's soft and dreamy. Would be reasonable to say (although a big generalisation) use a macro lens to illustrate a textbook about flowers, use a portrait lens + tubes to illustrate a book of poetry?

The very small folk are very good at hiding behind foliage when they see a camera. Which is perhaps fortunate if they happen to be a Nac Mac Feegle. (Look it up...)

Steve

Thanks folks. The experiment with tubes seems to be working.

Very true. If the subject is yellow, I always reduce the camera's exposure by 0.5 - 1EV then adjust until the result is what I want. It seems to help. This was -0.7EV. Being in shadow also helped, no bright highlights to deal with.

derek897 - Today's macro challenge is the eyes of a pollen beetle. Way beyond me, but for someone of your macro capabilities ...

Steve

Into the garden to mow the lawn and remove the weeds that had the temerity to grow during your absence? Up a step-ladder to do the painting you didn't get round to before retirement? Accompany Mrs HG on a trip to numerous shops where she can't decide on the new curtains and furniture? Retirement has many facets...

Steve

Almost agree. The bright patch in the water is a huge distraction. Crop just above it and suddenly the building becomes the focus of attention even with a bit of dark water present. It's still hard to see that there's a bridge below it, but that can be dealt with by a change of title.

Steve

Following a suggestion from Lennybloke, I've been experimenting with tubes on an FA77 as part of a project to photograph every type of flower in the garden. The aim of the project is to get 'interesting' pictures rather than just record shots. Here's one of the results.

The flower is Himalayan jasmine at about 1:1 magnification. There was a pollen beetle running around in every flower. This one posed for the shot so I thought it deserved its 15 minutes of fame. In fact, it seems to have replaced the flower as the star of the show.

Any comments or thoughts on the result of the tubes + FA77 experiment? Or messages to pass on to the beetle?




Steve

Thanks BIll. All credit to mother nature for the gracefulness and light. Low sun and ripening barley is a great combination, much more interesting than wheat (or oil-seed rape...). Can't do any more this year though, it was reduced to stubble a few days ago .

And thanks for doing so. I actually liked what I heard. Perhaps pop music hasn't been downhill all the way since the Beatles broke up!

Steve