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It's amazing the beauty you can find in small things, made large with the wonders of a macro lens!
This humble purple flower (a Delphinium I think, although I'm no botanist!) was happily sitting in a vase in our conservatory, minding its own business when I grabbed it for a photography session.
It was the rich colour combined with the lovely curved form and intricate detail that so enthused me, to the point where I took several images of the flower from different angles and with varying depths of field, trying to capture an image that best conveyed the flower's attributes.
In the end it was the first image I took that proved to be the most attractive, with a simple side on view set against a blank white sheet of paper, and a small aperture giving maximum depth of field to allow as much of the intricate markings on the petals of the flower to be seen.
I applied quite a heavy vignette in post-processing to provide a boundary to the image and to focus attention even more onto the flower.
Filename - flower purple 01.jpg
Camera - Canon 5D
Lens - 100mm macro
Exposure - 5 secs @ f32, ISO100
Location - My house
This image - 800x640px JPEG
Conversion - ACR & PS-CS6
Comments - Small aperture used for maximum depth of field.
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