Queen Anne's lace is blooming all over the place right now, and so I picked one and brought it home this morning to shoot. I used a flashlight to lighten up the background behind the flower and, with a 100mm macro lens set at f/2.8, reduced the depth of field (the amount of focus from front to back) to next to nothing.
These are deceptively difficult flowers to shoot — they look better from a distance than they do up really, really close. But then don't we all? ©Carol Leigh
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Stunning. What an artist.
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Thank you, madam. -- Carol Leigh
Carol -- this is so very beautiful. I appreciate how you always tell what lens you've used too. Very very beautiful shot!
Thanks, Judy. I should start just making up lenses, like this was taken with a 1000mm Celestron mirror lens with extension tubes... Unfortunately, I DO happen to own a Celestron f/11 fixed-aperture mirror lens! What a ridiculous purchase. I was looking for a 500mm lens at the time; the store was out, but they had this swell 1000mm. I figured if 500mm is good, well, then, 1000mm had to be GREAT, right? Ha! Ah, youth... -- Carol Leigh
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