Flowers in Wellington Botanical Gardens

[Wazza]

Shot all these with Tim's 100mm 2.8 Macro lens. A great lens.

http://wazz*****scity.com/well/06.jpg

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http://wazz*****scity.com/well/11.jpg

http://wazz*****scity.com/well/23.jpg

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(A closer view)

http://wazz*****scity.com/well/09.jpg

[MarkoPolo]

Beautiful shots of beautiful flowers. I hope to get back there again someday.

[RadAL]

gosh darn, those are incredible pictures!

[tim]

Nice pics, lovely colors!

[Gary Fairhead]

Great color, detail and exposure. Beautiful photos... that lens is on my short list.

[Wazza]

Great color, detail and exposure. Beautiful photos... that lens is on my short list.

Thanks, definately something I would enjoy having myself.

Thanks all. :)

[Drjones]

It is magical to see these things so close. We look more completely. Very nice photos.

[gmaize]

Warren,

Tell me, do you use a tripod for these types of shots. I've tried similar shots handheld and they just don't compare to your crispness and DOF and saturation. Give us some of the specifics about your preshot setup.

Thanks,

--gmaize

[Wazza]

Hello,

No tripod was used. Just save the images, and right click, view Exif, and see the shutter speeds. They wouldn't have been too slow. Being a 100mm lens, and used AV mode, purposely getting tight DOF, and allowing a faster shutter speed, without having to sacrifice for a higher ISO. 1/200 - 1/1000th it seems most these shots were. I also had a 580EX for some shots maybe. I can't honestly remember what I did, :lol:

The first, second and last were outside, and the others were in a greenhouse, but still had pretty decent light.
Thanks

[busbyea]

# 4 & 5 are my pics; although # 6 is quite erotic.
Wonderful cpatures, beautiful colors.
One "HECK" of a lens.