It was my mum's birthday last week, and my sister bough her some flowers, I loved the colour, and thought why not take a few shots, I took quite a few, but these ones are my favourites. None are edited, only resized, and the camera I used was my Canon EOS 400D.

Hope you like them.













Any comments and feedback welcome.

Sam.

Beautiful flowers. You have a great camera to be able to capture all the fine details. Wonderful job!

Thank you for your comment, I got bored, and thought I've not tried any close-up/macro photography before, so the flower looked like and interesting subject to work with, I'm quite happy with the results.

Sam.

Thanks for sharing those photos. They turned out really good. Keep up the great work.

Best Regards,

Jason

Thank You Jason, its always a pleasure sharing them here with the Pixel2Life Family

Sam.

the first one i the best, the others have too many distractions from the subject

what camera do you have, nice macro

Yeah, the first one is my favourite too, I have the Canon EOS 400D, thanks for adding me on DeviantART =)

do you have kit lenses on or have you bought new lenses?

I've got the standard 18-55mm Kit Lens, and I recently bought a Sigma 70-300mm Zoom Lens too.. What about you?

tomorow i will buy the pentax k200d so i was wondering if its possible to do macro shots like that with kit lenses and obviously it is

how do you like your new sigma?

Well as stated before you're using dslr so u can focus manually. Try focusing on the centre part of flower and a bigger F number, like f12 or smthng maybe? Or u may try focus stacking

The flowers are dead now lol, I'll see what I can find in the garden, and Focus Stacking? Please Explain =)

Thanks for the comment.

I'm loving the Sigma, its what I used for these shots, still waiting to use it properly, hopefully have some new wild life shots in a few weeks, quite looking forward to that, so check here and My dA for them.

Focus stacking - you take multiple shots of your subject at low F number, e.g F2.8... You make one shot with the subject's point A fully focused and take multiple shots focusing further on points B, C, D etc until you have the rear end of your subject too focused and sharp. After that you stack these shots in Photoshop. Why is this good? You can get nice blured background with subject fully in focused.
Yeah I have not tried it myself neither, not yet, still waiting for the snow to go away and when spring brings out the bugs I imagine this can be fun and frustruating at the same time

it sounds less fun and more frustrating to me

When doing this make sure to use a tripod. It makes it a lot easier to line all the photos up. If your subjects are moving at all, it will make this a pain in the butt to do with or without a tripod. The end results are really neat.

Best Regards,

Jason

The flower is beautiful, the snaps are also. I don't know if it's normal, but it has gone a bit out of focus. Was that done intentionally ?