Wow, I escaped the cubical at lunch! I am shocked! I usually eat lunch at my cube and check the internet to make sure things are going smoothly in the world. Today I grabbed my Canon 5DII and the rented 100mm macro lens to go practice.
Practice makes perfect and I have a LOT of practicing to do. (But my mom still loves me, allegedly). And what better thing to practice some macro photography than some flower photography around the downtown Provo area. The Courthouse had a number of flowers ready for their cameo.
Pink flowers with a macro lens
Macro photography gives you very little room for error. The depth of field can be quite narrow and I wasn’t using a tripod cause I want to try out the IS (Image Stabilization). And it doesn’t keep the wind from getting in the way, however, so you have to be a bit patient and try a number of shots.
Red flower bud in macro
And I thought it would be fun to photograph a dandelion, they could be a very beautiful flower – so I put a number of their seed in a neighbor’s lawn to see what it looks like. (Dear neighbor, you deserved it.)
Dandelion, underrated flower
And this is a crop of the photograph from above. This is why 21 megapixels is a good thing – a lot of room to crop so you can see all this detail.
Let's look at the dandelion a big closer
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