Floral photography

[Clix Pix]

• ILCE-7RM5
• FE 12-24mm F2.8 GM
• 24.0 mm
• ƒ/2.8
• 1/500 sec
• ISO 200

 

[Clix Pix]

• ILCE-7RM5
• FE 12-24mm F2.8 GM
• 24.0 mm
• ƒ/8
• 1/640 sec
• ISO 1250

 

[Clide]

Angel wings.

• ILCE-7RM5
• FE 70-200mm F4 Macro G OSS II
• 169.0 mm
• ƒ/11
• 1/50 sec
• ISO 200

 

[Clix Pix]

• ILCE-7RM5
• FE 90mm F2.8 Macro G OSS
• 90.0 mm
• ƒ/2.8
• 1/320 sec
• ISO 1600

 

[FowlersFreeTime]

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Beautiful how it is borderline abstract due to the DOF.

 

[Clix Pix]

Thank you! I love shooting abstracts, macros and closeups, and sometimes, yes, there is overlap there, especially when I use a lens wide-open and a very shallow DOF. With winter and cold weather now in the air, I'll be shooting a lot more of this type of thing for the next few months.

 

[Deleted Member 5045]

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[-ST-]

A couple of amaryllises - experimenting with light indoors.

• ILCE-7M4
• Sony FE 50mm F1.2 GM (SEL50F12GM)
• 50.0 mm
• ƒ/1.2
• 1/50 sec
• ISO 320

• ILCE-7M4
• Sony FE 50mm F1.2 GM (SEL50F12GM)
• 50.0 mm
• ƒ/4
• 1/50 sec
• ISO 2500

 

[Deleted Member 5045]

A couple of amaryllis - experimenting with light indoors.
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Your experiments are proving to be successful.

 

[Clix Pix]

• ILCE-7RM5
• FE 90mm F2.8 Macro G OSS
• 90.0 mm
• ƒ/6.3
• 1/640 sec
• ISO 40000

 

[Clix Pix]

• ILCE-7RM5
• FE 90mm F2.8 Macro G OSS
• 90.0 mm
• ƒ/2.8
• 1/1000 sec
• ISO 6400

 

[spudhead]

one from Capri last year, the name of the flower escapes me but I feel sure Chris or someone will put me right

• ILCE-9
• Zeiss Vario-Tessar T* FE 24-70 mm F4 ZA OSS (SEL2470Z)
• 70.0 mm
• ƒ/5
• 1/640 sec
• ISO 125

 

[Brownie]

one from Capri last year, the name of the flower escapes me but I feel sure Chris or someone will put me right View attachment 54431

Bird of Paradise?

 

[spudhead]

Bird of Paradise?

Yes thanks Tim

 

[Brownie]

Yes thanks Tim

Even a blind squirrel finds a nut sometimes!

 

[spudhead]

Even a blind squirrel finds a nut sometimes!

Yep if I were a squirrel the nut would be off

 

[spudhead]

getting arty with a weed in Corfu back in 23 not sure it works

• ILCE-9
• Zeiss Vario-Tessar T* FE 24-70 mm F4 ZA OSS (SEL2470Z)
• 70.0 mm
• ƒ/14
• 1/640 sec
• ISO 640

 

[FowlersFreeTime]

getting arty with a weed in Corfu back in 23 not sure it worksView attachment 54463

A weed with a view?

 

[spudhead]

A weed with a view?

Yep Chris a view to a weed

 

[Thad E Ginathom]

A weed with attitude. And a view.

And... it works for me. Nice!

 

[FowlersFreeTime]

I forgot to trim the spent blooms off my orchid, and it surprised me with another round of flowers. Admittedly, fewer this time, but still surprising. This is the first one that opened.

• Sony E 30mm f/3.5 Macro
• 30.0 mm
• ƒ/11
• 1/100 sec
• ISO 80

• Sony E 30mm f/3.5 Macro
• 30.0 mm
• ƒ/11
• 1/100 sec
• ISO 100

• Sony E 30mm f/3.5 Macro
• 30.0 mm
• ƒ/11
• 1/100 sec
• ISO 100

I think in the future, I might try focus stacking on close-ups like that last shot.

 

[Clix Pix]

• ILCE-7RM5
• Voigtlander MACRO APO-LANTHAR 110mm F2.5
• 110.0 mm
• ƒ/2.5
• 1/5000 sec
• ISO 5000

 

[Clix Pix]

• ILCE-7RM5
• Sony FE 90mm f/2.8 Macro G OSS
• 90.0 mm
• ƒ/2.8
• 1/5000 sec
• ISO 2000

 

[FowlersFreeTime]

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These close-ups you do with shallow DOF, they're like paintings, and really beautiful.

 

[Clix Pix]

Thank you! My Sony 90mm f/2.8 macro lens is absolutely one of my favorites and I use it frequently. I also love my fast Voigtlander lenses, too, as they seem to bring a special quality to any image I shoot with one. I enjoy putting a lens on the camera ad spending some time simply exploring a subject, usually the closer up the better. Occasionally I will also put a screw-on closeup lens on top of my 90mm macro, which really allows me to get even closer and, yes, also significantly narrows the DOF even more. Sometimes this works, sometimes it doesn't, but when it does.....I'm really happy with the results. I love playing with color, too, seeing how that can affect an image, and so this last image really hit a lot of boxes for me.

 

[Clix Pix]

• ILCE-7RM5
• Sony FE 24-70mm F2.8 GM
• 59.0 mm
• ƒ/9
• 1/3200 sec
• ISO 65535

 

[iamdlewis]

So I guess this can be called testing for some floral still life later

• ILCE-7RM4
• Sony FE 24-105mm F4 G OSS (SEL24105G)
• 24.0 mm
• ƒ/14
• 1/2 sec
• ISO 100

 

[Clix Pix]

• ILCE-7RM5
• FE 50mm F1.2 GM
• 50.0 mm
• ƒ/8
• 1/200 sec
• ISO 250

 

[Halcyon]

Roadside Sunflowers Seattle WA

They were just outside a building that house about 3 restaurants.

• ILCE-7RM4A
• E 28-200mm F2.8-5.6 A071
• 144.0 mm
• ƒ/5.6
• 1/640 sec
• ISO 100

 

[Clix Pix]

• ILCE-7RM5
• Sony FE 90mm f/2.8 Macro G OSS
• 90.0 mm
• ƒ/2.8
• 1/8000 sec
• ISO 640