Wild Hyacinth

Since most of our flowers are either burned up or dried up from 100 deg. temps and no rain, here is a Hyacinth from this spring with lots of buds waiting for their turn to shine. I just wish I had captured a little more DOF so the blooms were more in focus.

Very nice, Dale. Beautiful background, and sharp detail for the most part. I might consider cropping just above the bright spot at the bottom, since those blooms are OOF anyway.

Thanks Bill. That is an idea that I had not considered. I do have another shot of all buds where I used the black side of the reflector as the background. Since I am not a member and have to wait a week for a followup post, you can see it here.
http://www.pbase.com/dedsen/image/79755730

Dale:

This was a perfect shot to use a bracket focus - take a second shot with the foreground buds in focus and simply blend it into this shot with the rest in focus - you get instant f128! (we'll be going over this in the photoshop class - it is very easy) Adding that black background always helps too as you have shown...

The pbase post is a much stonger image, Dale, quite elegant.

Nice shot Dale. I like the sharpness in the upper regions and the bg is good too. A little diffused light and this would be awesome. What were the shooting spec's?

Thanks for the comment Tim. I am looking forward to the PS workshop next month. I am hacking my way around in CS3 now trying to get a feel for it.

Wayne, this was shot at F4.5, 1/250th and iso 100 with a Sigma 150 macro. I am not sure why I went with F4.5 for this one. I usually shoot up around F8 or F11.