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We have a beautiful old Camelia tree in the backyard which produces a mass of blooms from April through to July or so. They drop like maniacs and mulch quite well.

This is the bits of one such bloom. Taken with the 105 and the SB800 and the smallest aperture I could muster.

Amazing - great DOF for a macro

Thanks Chris - I just checked - aperture was f32, and I wasn't very close.

That is really excellent - did you cropped the pic much

There is very little resizing if any, the image is around
900x800=720,000 pixels of 6,016,000, so it is 0.12 of the
total image. I guess that is an 88% crop leaving 12% of
the original image area.

That's a great photo Greg. At first I misread the topic and thought you'd taken a photo of Prince Charles' new wife

Greg

Exellent. As Chris said the DOF is amazing, but I guess that's because of the shot distance (and the SB800 would have helped there too).

The tight crop works really well too. I gather this was taken indoors after the flower fell from the tree so you had control over annoying variables like the breeze.

Thanks Peter.

The flower was actually on the tree, although the day was fairly still. The SB800 (with diffusion dome in this instance) is fantastic with the choice of aperture and shutter speed it allows.

Amazing details. Great DOF.

regards,

Arthur

Cool pic Greg. Love these extra close ups.

Greg
Was the SB800 on the camera or detached? Lighting is perfect and the colours look very natural.

Greg,

Like this image a lot. Great work. Well done.
Alex

Amazing, love the bright colours. I am a big fan of good macro shots

Thanks folks.

Matt, the SB800 was on the camera. It really is an unbelievably good flash. There was plenty of daylight (not direct sun) but I wanted lots of DOF. The diffusion dome on the SB800 is very nifty.

Greg, you colour my world

Nice shot.

Mic.