More Macro Mayhem

Like grant, I found myself looking at the smaller things in the world and in one way looking at the world at my feet.
What do you think of this one?

This is really nice, James. I love your treatment of the image. Very delicate.

FWIW, I just got a Canon 500D, and have too been playing in the smaller world. Macro's make you appreciate, the slight imperfections or lack their of.

I think you have found two very nice specimens, and the DOF presents a nice softness.

I'm sorry James, but I am too old to dig fuzzy photos. I'd like to see the one where you
maximized depth of field.

Art L.

James,
While I'm not normally a fan of intentional soft images this one works...very well! Nice work.

Jim

Beautiful! Looks a lot like a painting. I really like the soft colors. Very nice.

I think your background choice in this comp really makes this focus range work very well, IMO. I usually like to see at least a portion of the stamens fairly sharp (but maybe the JPEG is the culprit).

Thanks everybody! Any and all input is much appreciated, I actually shot this in my little wildflower garden in my back yard where I have Columbine, Parry Primrose, Lupine, blue Flax, Fire Wheel and more growing. The backgroud you see is just the ground and more of the flower bunch. The soft focus was an intentional choice, but I usually also like more sharpness in these shot, however this time the image seemed to guide me more to the soft side.

One thing I try to consistantly do is allow for selective focus where i have one sharp thing and then layers of other things coming in and out of focus through the shallow depth of focus. I should go back out and try this at f/8 then f/11. This one was at f/2.8 90mm Macro Manual.

Nice colors in this image.