Anita's Photoblog
Seedhead with Frost
Posted by Anita (West Nottingham, United States) on 3 January 2008 in Plant & Nature.
An Echinacea (Purple Coneflower) seedhead in my garden.
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A few words about the EXIF data, beginning in April when I began using Nikon D300 and the Sigma 105mm macro: My new camera and macro lens record the relative or effective f stop, not the one seen on the lens. For an explanation of this, go to the next to the last question at this site.
Chris from South Jersey, United States
great colors and use of depth of field. You have a good series here of "frosty" pictures.
3 Jan 2008 3:33pm
@Chris: Thanks. "Frosty" is about all I have of interest these days!
@Lorie: Thanks. I was pleasantly surprised to discover the lovely background colors.
John Maslowski from Dallas, PA, United States
Like the touch of frost. It contrasts nicely with the colors here. Very nice image.
4 Jan 2008 2:30am
@John Maslowski: Thanks. I switched to my macro lens, which I haven't used in several months.
@KMF: Thank you!
scotfot from United Kingdom
Frosty is great... always something different, great picture!
4 Jan 2008 8:06am
@scotfot: Thanks. I wish my macro lens were sharper, but.....
Richard_Irwin from Belper, United Kingdom
Its perfectly encased in frost. Nice shot
4 Jan 2008 10:28am
@Richard_Irwin: I am discovering beauty in the cold, barren winter.
scotfot from United Kingdom
Sharpness looks fine... but if you are not happy I see you have Photoshop 7... a bit of unsharp mask might help. If you ever you move up to Photoshop CS2 or 3 they have a brilliant new sharpening tool called Smart sharpen.
4 Jan 2008 12:35pm
@scotfot: Thanks, Scott. I use Unsharp Mask, but, I admit to being rather quick and casual about it. So far I haven't seen much reason to spend $200 to upgrade, but........
Konica Minolta MAXXUM 5D
1/6 second
F/13.0
ISO 100
150 mm (35mm equiv.)