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Mt Lindesay is located 15km due north of the town of Denmark, beaut little hill which had just been burnt off, nonetheless there were still quite a few very nice flowers and interesting things to make good use of a macro lens with!

I got stuck in a composition groove with these and was kicking myself for not getting lower and trying different angles, suggestions? comments? critique?






and the pano from the summit, not particularly high, but it is WA

Love them, must be spectacular up that way at the moment.

I think there is no doubt that you have mastered the macro lighting, DOF etc etc. These looks primo. In fact, I'd be keen for a tutorial sometime! [[size=50]When I get a macro lens[/size]]

biggerry wrote:kicking myself for not getting lower and trying different angles

It's time for you to move on from the basic macro.

Gerry
I think you're being too hard on yourself. Yes these are compositionally the same, but each (bar #3 I guess) has razor sharp DOF on the flower with great light and bokeh. There's plenty here to hold the eye. My advice would be "more of the same"

Nice to see some people are getting out and about.
These are great Gerry, nice detail which I do like.
The pano is pretty cool too.

with the whats said above. Love the colours and the DOF

Big V wrote:Love them, must be spectacular up that way at the moment.

ta Big V, these were taken in Feb this year when I was in WA, I can only imagine that it would be spectular during spring..

surenj wrote:I'd be keen for a tutorial sometime! [When I get a macro lens]

anytime, what limited knowleadge I have I would be more than happy to pass on. fyi, these were all natural light shots, the cloud cover provide very awesome diffused light as can be seen in the pano, f-stop was larger than I wanted but with limited light and highish ISO it was the best I could get.

surenj wrote:It's time for you to move on from the basic macro.

yeah, just need to think a bit more when doing it to achieve something different.

stubbsy wrote:I think you're being too hard on yourself. Yes these are compositionally the same, but each (bar #3 I guess) has razor sharp DOF on the flower with great light and bokeh. There's plenty here to hold the eye. My advice would be "more of the same"

Thanks Peter

colin_12 wrote:Nice to see some people are getting out and about.

will have to get up your way for some spring macro madness - its more fun when you have someone to identify and pronouce all those funny names...

biggerry wrote:these were all natural light shots

Thanks for the info Gerry, I was trying to figure out how you got 160th f8 on these with that highish DOF. Then I realised that you used the 55 macro.

WoW! Those colours pop!

Unfortunately we have had a terrible wildflower season this year. Its been so dry.

Regards
Peter

ozdragon31 wrote:Unfortunately we have had a terrible wildflower season this year. Its been so dry.

yeah I hear it is pretty miserable over there with no rain, fingers crossed for something better next year!

Oh, and also - welcome