Oh By The Way

Gallery: FloraPosted March 26, 20188,079 views3 comments

Sony A77!!
Minolta 100mm macro
ISO 400, 1/500 @ f5.6
Made a madcap visit to my son in Scottsdale this weekend. It was a family event but I never leave home without the camera albeit I did leave the tripod and 200mm at home. These early prickly pear flowers were the first to bloom on this plant near his home and I could not resist. All comments welcome.>=))>

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Comment posted by Philip Hodgkins on March 26, 2018 at 11:42 PM

Love the color and waxy translucence of the magenta blossoms. Ours have always been yellow, back when we had them some years ago.

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Comment posted by Kathy Snead on March 27, 2018 at 7:43 AM

Bill

I really like this. Lovely color and detail.. It sort of looks like a lady with a hat on. Is this a partial stack? I ask because that is great detail at 5.6.

Kathy: I'm a pure single capture guy. This was shot with my 100mm lens instead of the 200 thus the apparent greater DOF. Handheld trying to maintain a proper plane of focus. The focus peaking feature on the A77II EVF helps a lot. Bill

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Comment posted by Nathan Buck on March 29, 2018 at 11:26 AM

Excellent, Bill! Great comp and fantastic color. I like it a lot.

Nathan

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