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DOA Two Daisies

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Posted by Wayne Rhodus on June 3, 2007 at 2:25 PM
DOA Two Daisies
Another DOA comp from my recent wedding reception setup. This time two daisies basking in the backlight in my kitchen window.

DOA & SOA for those wondering refer to "Deep on Arrival" & "Shallow on Arrival" and are all the rage on the Flora forum now. Specifically related to whether one tends to shoot with an nearly full open or fully closed aperture in the flora shots.

Canon 5D, 100-400L @ 260 mm, tc 1.4, 65mm ext, 8 sec @ f/32, ISO 200, curves, sat, sharpen
Posted by Larry Daniel on June 3, 2007 at 5:28 PM
Very nice Wayne.
Posted by Dale Edsen on June 3, 2007 at 5:30 PM
Another nice shot Wayne and now i have to investigate some new acronyms.
Posted by Glenn Carter on June 3, 2007 at 5:57 PM
Wayne,
I like the composition. The depth of field is great. And that is a sharp image. I'm looking into a macro myself. Ever heard anything about the Sigma 70mm f2.8 Macro?

Glenn
Posted by Laurie Skillern on June 4, 2007 at 2:23 AM
Beautiful.
Posted by Tim Buchanan on June 4, 2007 at 9:05 AM
I'd never heard of the terms SOA and DOA before (well, DOA also has a different meeting, and a lot of my pictures fall into that category :biggrin: ) - kind of interesting. It's interesting that in an image like this, where the DOF is deeper than my eye expects, it starts to look a little like a composite of two individual flowers.
Posted by Jason C. Doss on June 4, 2007 at 10:22 AM
Beautiful, Wayne! Love the backlighting effect! I have to wonder, though... why'd you use the 100-400/1.4x TC to take photos of plants in your kitchen? You must have a BIG kitchen! :razz:
Posted by Wayne Rhodus on June 4, 2007 at 10:56 AM
Two reasons Jason ... 1) The bay window sits behind the kitchen sink and I didn't want to put the tripod in the sink and, 2) I wanted to see what the 100-400 could do on the 5D with a frame filling shot. But even with that reach I couldn't fill the frame from where I was forced to set up, thus the 1.4. Of course then the minimum focusing distance was too small so I had to stack 13, 21, 31 extensions! :rolleyes:

What's a guy to do? :wink:
Posted by Bill Dark on June 4, 2007 at 11:35 AM
Beautiful color, Wayne! Great detail and soft lighting too. Just goes to show that a person doesn't have to travel far to capture some real beauty in a photograph. Nice work!
Posted by Tom Kennon on June 4, 2007 at 4:01 PM
Great shot Wayne, I really like the way the light shows.