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Yesterday I got to spend some time in Bethany's garden taking photos. I'm not sure why, but I felt like I was getting better results than I normally do. My usual approach to her garden is with my macro setting. Yesterday I decided to change it up and use my zoom to get up close and personal.
I discovered that when using the zoom it is much easier to acquire the depth of field I require. The macro setting on my camera makes it very difficult to get a nice bokeh, no matter what the aperture is set at. As you can see in this photo, with the zoom I could throw the background completely out of focus.
The other benefit of using the telephoto was that I could observe the bees without bothering them. I had a great time snapping photos of this critter enjoying Bethany's passion flowers.
Canon PowerShot S2 IS, 72mm, f/4.5, 1/400 sec, ISO 50
posted by Bethany at 9:25 AM
17 Comments:
Really lovely shot. I've been using my zoom lens lately with extension tubes added to give me more reach over my dedicated macro lens. It's nice to have that distance sometimes.
Very well executed!! The crispness of the shot is excellent!
That is a really pretty flower. Props to Bethany. And that is a great photo. I use the same model camera and I have found the same thing about using the zoom to get that nice narrow depth of field.
Beautiful shot!! The background is wonderfully out of focus and your flower is perfectly sharp. That is a lovely flower, too.
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Truly lovely, perfect shot. The flower is very unusual. I don't think I've ever seen one like it before.
What a lovely flower...I am sure the bee is enjoying it as much as we are enjoying seeing it enjoying it...er..something like that.
But you get it...great shot...
Spectacular shot. I love all of it. Its a nature shot, flower shot, bug shot (a bee, even better), macro-ish. Great composition and over all amazing shot :) Keep it up Timmy man :)
That is a great shot and a really interesting flower as well. Bokeh is much better too... Nicely done!
Zoom lenses can make better macro lenses but their limitation is that you often can not get close enough to focus properly. On an SLR (as Otto mentions) you can use extension tubes which reduce the minimum focus distance of the lens.
Looks like your camera can get pretty close to the action zoomed in for good results.
Beautiful shot as always. Not much the Subster can say aboy your flower shots that have not been said, not really very interested in this type of photography so will assume this is a wonderful shot from the comments above. Looks good to me as well :)
Suby
That is such a cool looking flower!
I will have to try it with the zoom next time, I really like the way yours turned out here.
WOW Timmy! This is a very lovely shot.
Wow, this is splendid. 1. the flower I'm seeing 2. the bee you captured. Very good macro shot!
Excellent! The composition, the focus, DOF, bee. It all comes together. Glad to see another nature lover! :-)
Paul
What a wonderful photo! Passion fruits belong to my favorite flowers and you captured it in a great way with the bee flying next to it!
quite simply an excellent capture!!
wow, this is also nice: everything is on focus, too.
Like a mini-helicopter coming in to land.
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