Macro Shots of Flowers

All of these photos were taken with a 10x macro 58mm lens. They were taken in low light with flash in AV mode. I took the photos when it was close to sunset so I needed to use my flash. I like how using the flash with a macro lens created a dark background but lighted up the flowers.

I played around with photo shop a bit. I used the magic wand and changed the hue of parts of the flower.

It was really difficult to capture photos of the ants. . .they kept moving around and I could not take a good macro shot of them. This was the best one I took.

I like this photo.

Okay this photo can be seen indescent depending where your mind is at! LOL!

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UV Filter and Macro

I'm sorry I have uploaded any new photos for a while. I haven't taken any photos that I really liked. I decided to use my UV filter and see how it effects my photos. I should have taken one with and without the UV filter to show the differences. I didn't think about it but I'll take a few more photos this week with the UV filter and post it later this week.

The photos are not as crisp as I would like them to be. The wind was blowing and the flowers kept moving while I was taking the photos so it was difficult to take a clear photo of the flowers.
I used a 10x macro lens on macro setting. I was going to take the photos in AV mode but because the flowers kept moving around, it was difficult for the camera to focus on the flowers so I used macro, which made focusing a little easier.

I like this one because the camera focused really well on the one bud.

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Photos of the Day 03-14-09

I love this photo. . .it's the bud of a plant (the ones that look like grass). I shot it with 58mm macro lens and when I uploaded the photo. . it looked like a bug walking on a tight wire. LOL!

This is another macro shot of the plant. I like this macro shot. It shows the pretty details of the plant down to the fuzzy top.

This is another type of plant. . .again taken in macro.

My assignment was to take photos and show movement. . .sort of blurred and in slow shutter speed but I didn't do very well. I had forgotten how to set in slow shutter speed but it still shows some movement. It shows some parts blurred and others sharp so I'm satisfied with this photo. What do you think? Can you tell that the wind was blowing?

This is just a group shot at my daughter's Key Club bake sale at a bicycling racing event, an invent sponsored by the community

I really like this photo. . the picture is of a medic car for the bicyclist. Can you see the Key club in the background through the window?

This photo was taken in slow shutter speed (I think) but I accomplished what I had set out to do. I wanted to show movement by having the bicyclist blurred and the rest of the image sharp. I just wish that the image of the bicyclist weren't so blurred and there were some form to their image. They were racing right in from of me. . .they were actually moving really fast.

Here are the bicyclist taken as they rode in front of me. In this photo, again they were riding in fast speed but this was taken as a regular photo.

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Macro Shots of Flowers In My Yard

A bunch of photos I took of flowers in my yard. The super close up photos were taken with a 58mm macro lense attached to a 18mm - 55mm lense and 3x close up lense. They were taken in

Program AE setting. The regular shots were taken with my 18 - 55mm lense on auto focus macro setting.

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