Pink - Erica Heathers

Updated


Erica Heathers

Native to South Africa

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• Shot handheld with Canon EOS 20D, 18-55mm EF-S Kit lens in Canon Raw format
• F13.0, 1/50 s, ISO 800
• Did minor adjustments and converted to JPG using Canon's Digital Photo Professional bundled with 20D.
• Applied "Glow" and "Soft Focus" Effects in Picasa2
• Did a very tight crop, makes it look like it was taken with a macro lens. Well it was not. The 8.2 MP gives you so much of resolution to play with.
  
  Although, I do wish I had the 100mm F2.8 Macro lens to capture the beauty of these tiny flowers in great detail.

Update

Couldn't resist posting one more picture of these beautiful flowers. This time, a 4:3 aspect ratio wallpaper. Click on the link below to download the wallpaper.

Roses - a macro shot

Roses
F4.9, 1/4 s, +2EV, Macro Focusing Mode

Above is a macro shot of the same roses from the post before. I don't have any special lighting equipment, so to washout the background, I took the shot with +2 Exposure Compensation in Aperture Priority. Also to avoid shaking the camera at shutter release, I used 10 sec timer release. Had to do minor color correction and sharpening using Picasa 2.

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A couple of Macro Shots

I took this macro shots recently at a restaurant. Canon G5 has a macro mode that allows you to focus on objects as close as 2.0 inch. When in macro mode, autofocus looks for the nearest object to focus.  Click on the image to see it in higher resolution.








I wish I had moved that menu out of the frame before taking the photo.