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Last Monday I spent some hours at Hunter Valley Gardens taking pics. They have just started their Rose Spectacular so I thought I'd start with a rose or two. These shots were all taken with the Nikkor 28-70 f/2.8. FOr a larger version click a pic.







A bee doing bee business



and a wide shot to finish



Edit: Replaced #1 and #4 with less sharpened versions

love the bee photo stubbsy

Hi Peter
Beautiful images but I think #1 and #4 are over sharpened. This is something that is becoming a pet hate of mine and seems more common amongst folk who have not migrated from film based photography. It makes the images look false. I have recently evaluated a large number of images taken by beginners that were slightly soft due to off focus or camera movement....and they looked natural and easy to look at. I think over sharpening is something that might be a personal choice by photographers....but it seems easier to overdo it rather than pull it back a tad. Perhaps this is worth further discussion?

I agree Matt. #4 makes my eyes bleed.

Wayne - Thanks. This is by far the best bee pic I've ever manage3d.

Matt - Thank you for the honest critique. Interestingly I worry I may have oversharpened my pics, yet for these I knew they were pusing the envelope but felt for some weird reason they looked better sharp. Looking at these images with fresh eyes this morning I agree with you - these are way OTT.

I have gone back and reprocessed #1 and #4 and updated the images in this post to have more real world softness.

Thanks Todd for echoing Matt's comments. And yes #4 was way, way too sharp. FIxed now.

I love the first two images, very nice. I have too see what you can do when you pick up a macro.

Thanks Vince

It was this outing that gave me the macro lust