New and thought I would post a few macro flower pics

[notoriouslightning]

I shot all of these with an xti using a canon 100mm macro 2.8 Let me know what you think. Thanks for any info..............BTW i am new here, so hi to everyone....

 

[tirediron]

and 'Hi' right back to you! As for what I think, well, I think I'd like a nice, cold glass of Guinness and a steak sandwhich. Ohhhhhhhh, the pictures, right. Let's get to that shall we?
Overall a very nice set of macro shots, with good exposure and DoF.
1. The Bud in the background is somewhat distracting. I would suggest cropping that out altogether. I think the composition might have been improved slightly by moving a little to your right to look just a bit more 'into' the flower.
2. Very nice; again a shift to your right to get more of the side-on view of the butterfly and the flowers around him in sharp focus would have been nice, but I know when you're shooting any sort of insect/animal, you take what you can get.
3. Nice, just a tad more DoF would have really made this perfect.
4. Nice.
5. Nice, in this case a reflector would have helped to even out the exposure on the lower-right petals, and a cropping to eliminate the distracting elements upper-right.
A bunch of very minor, very nit-picky points, nothing not easily corrected.
Just my $00.02 worth - your milage may vary.
~John

 

[Bifurcator]

I like them! Especially #2

They're kinda small though. This makes it hard to see any kind of detail. I notice several people doing that here actually. Most do about 800x600 or bigger but there are a few doing 400x300 and etc. That really kills the experience for me personally. My reaction is kind of like: "Awwwe, that looks like it would be a nice photo... too bad I can't see it"

I have good eyes... maybe they just have really small monitors or something? <shrug>

 

[notoriouslightning]

Thanks for the input, I didn't realize the posting size was so large. I will start another post to see if I can post the larger sizes. Peace

 

[Moglex]

Very nice - 3 & 4 are particularly good.

 

[mr_baseball_08]

I like them! Especially #2

They're kinda small though. This makes it hard to see any kind of detail. I notice several people doing that here actually. Most do about 800x600 or bigger but there are a few doing 400x300 and etc. That really kills the experience for me personally. My reaction is kind of like: "Awwwe, that looks like it would be a nice photo... too bad I can't see it"

I have good eyes... maybe they just have really small monitors or something? <shrug>

Personally I hate photos so big I have to scroll up and down and sideways just to see what is happening. That's usually with I stick with 500x333 because it will fit pretty much anyone's screen resolution. Plus my photos link to my Flickr so you can always view the bigger version there.

 

[Antarctican]

Hi, and welcome to the forum. That's a lovely set of pics. The orange colour is very vibrant...love it. And the delicate lavender colour, with the butterfly, is sweet. My fave of the lot is #4.

 

[Bifurcator]

Personally I hate photos so big I have to scroll up and down and sideways just to see what is happening. That's usually with I stick with 500x333 because it will fit pretty much anyone's screen resolution. Plus my photos link to my Flickr so you can always view the bigger version there.

Yeah, hehehe that would fit on anything alright... even a MacClassic with that itty-bitty 7 inch screen. Maybe it's just cuz I'm on dual 26" at 1920x1200 each or something I dunno. I figure that almost everyone who has a camera is at least at 1280x960 - even laptop users. BTW a tip for viewing larger images that don't scale because they're in-line; right click and select Show image in new window. It'll then autoscale. Anyway, either way I guess it's not a big deal it's just that some of the people here take some really nice images and it's extra sweet when I can see some of the detail in them. I'm glad people don't post full 8mp images but 800x600 or there abouts is real nice imo.