6 | April
"Salad Anyone?"
General: 6:15 PM on 4/1/06 | Canon 20D
Technical: 1/200sec | f/3.2 | 100mm (160mm) | ISO-200
Lens: EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro USM
Exposure Mode: Av (Aperture Priority)
Exposure Bias: +0
Flash: No

This is center of one of the flowers currently blooming on a small cactus plant in our front yard. Good old milimeter depth of field again!

Tomorrow I'll post a photo of the entire plant (or at least a whole flower) to give you a size comparison. This was at or near 1:1, with an effective focal length of 160mm.

This is probably my favorite style of photography: abstract macro. Abstract macros usually make good wallpaper, so I've included wallpapers for this shot.

Wallpaper:

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categories: abstract flora macro nature

Thoughts of: Chantal
April 6th, 2006 at 6:32 AM

Beautiful composition and colour settings....

Thoughts of: zac
April 6th, 2006 at 3:36 PM

awesome! so vibrant - at least in safari! ;)

Thoughts of: Ed Little, Jr.
April 6th, 2006 at 10:14 PM

You're right...the black border adds to the image.

Thoughts of: Liz
April 6th, 2006 at 10:26 PM

Love the colors! It looks like shredded coconut that's been dyed red. :D Looking forward to tomorrow's picture!

(It makes an awesome wallpaper, btw)

Thoughts of: jasonspix
April 7th, 2006 at 12:48 AM

Wonderful colors, Great detail!

Thoughts of: Tuan
April 7th, 2006 at 1:20 AM

best part for me is the organge background. superb.

Thoughts of: Raymond Tse
April 7th, 2006 at 7:29 AM

This is excellent - great DOF and complementary colours of red + orange.

Thoughts of: Gonzalo
April 7th, 2006 at 4:25 PM

Nice macro shot! I love the color in this picture, the angle and selective focus!

congratulations.

Thoughts of: tetsu
April 7th, 2006 at 9:48 PM

Beautiful DoF!!

Thoughts of: Mark
April 8th, 2006 at 9:54 AM

wow, now thats some nice DOF....so smooth!!

Thoughts of: yungyaw
April 11th, 2006 at 3:55 AM

The colours are really appealing to my eyes. Nice work.

Thoughts of: Tristan
April 26th, 2006 at 12:31 AM

Beautiful bokeh and depth of field, and color of course. Very nice macro!

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