Some flower shots from this morning.

[dearis]

Hi there,

I am fairly knew to DSLR and even newer to macro (been shooting macro for 2months) have not been able to shoot due to re-injuring my back and having teeth pulled, so I have been chompong at the bit pardon the pun.
Here are 3 shots of Correa flowers, they are Australian native fuscia's.

This is my first post on this site.

Comments and critacism welcomed good and bad. These flowers are about 2cm long, I love this lens and the kenko rings.

Regards Darren

1. Exif: 1/6 sec, F/9, 100 macro lens with kenko rings, ISO-100, MT24-EX flash set at 2:1 -1/3 compensation used as fill.



2. Exif: 1/200, F/16, 100mm macro lens, ISO-100, MT24-EX flash set at 2:1 -1/3 compensation.



3. Exif: 1/200, F/16, 100mm macro lens, ISO-100, MT24-EX flash set at 2:1 -1/3 compensation.

[MikeBinOKlahoma]

Hi Darren, and welcome to the site!

You've been through a lot of woe lately, congratulations on being able to get out and photo some beautiful flowers!

[dearis]

Thanks for the comments and for taking the time to look Mike, I can't wait for spring here in Australia so the creepy crawlys come out to play.

Regards Darren

[rjlittlefield]

Darren,

Thanks for joining the forums here.

Your images are very nice. The second and third seem particularly well done -- classic strobe lighting with black background, very crisp. The colors on that second one are outrageous!

The first one might have turned out better with focus a hair farther back. Or maybe not. This is always hard for me to predict, so I generally just shoot a bunch with different focus points and then pick the one that I like the best, or stack several together using Helicon Focus.

Nice stuff -- welcome aboard!

--Rik

[dearis]

Hi Rik,

thanks for looking and commenting, I never think to vary focal points, will give that a whirl it may give another dimmension to my shots

Thanks for that

Regards Darren