Nature Close-up Class Field Trip at Ridley Creek State Park
As I mentioned in my last Wildflower Post, last weekend I did a field trip to Ridley Creek State Park with my Chester County Night School Nature Close-up Photography class. For the field trip John Koskulitz was helping out. So when I was not helping students I took the opportunity to shoot some. And at our final classroom session we critiqued some of their images. At the end of the session they want to know if they could see some of the images I shot that morning. I couldn’t show any at the session because I didn’t have them with me. But I think I will post a few over the next week of so and share with everyone.
I keyed this out but have forgotten what it is called so I will have to update this when I get home. I’m down in southern Delaware teaching the Beaches and Wildflowers Workshop. Update: this is Canada Mayflower.
The shooting metadata for this image is:
D200 with 105 macro
1/45 sec @ f/3.5 , ISO 100
Matrix, Aperture Priority, Comp +2/3
After shooting this version I added a 36mm extension tube to my 105 macro lens to allow me to focus a bit closer so that I could fill the frame with a couple of individual blossoms. Because of the magnification the DOF was quite limited. And this was shot outside so, even though there as not a lot of wind, there was some movement. So, in addition to shooting a version with as much of the blossom in the upper left in focus as I could manage, I shot a couple of more frames with the focus shifted so some area behind and another with some area in front of the blossom in focus. I then used Photoshop to align and merge the three images. (I talked about this technique in my Photography Cheats Physics series.)
Here is the result.
The shooting metadata for this image is:
D200 with 105 macro
1/30 sec @ f/3.5 , ISO 100
Matrix, Aperture Priority, Comp +2/3