I picked up another bouquet at one of our local supermarkets and spent some time photographing various parts of it yesterday. I set up on the chest freezer which is one of two places I can get direct sun this time of year. I used a sheet of sky-blue construction paper for backdrops (which auto white balance kept trying to make gray

). I need to remember to turn that off for inside photography.
5DIII, EF180 f/3.5L macro, tripod and cable release, 7 shot stack in Zerene Stacker, f/16, 1/15 sec, iso 400, aperture priority, pattern metering, +1 2/3 EV. Processed in LR5 & CS6. I liked the relatively soft petal look, so I did no enhancement of texture or sharpening of the flower. Cropped to an 11 MP 6x7 before resizing for the web.
Comments and criticisms are very much appreciated.
Comments
7 commentsThe crop appears to be too bottom heavy for me...IMO, you might crop much of the stem out, L and B, and let the bloom "rule the photo".