Golden Hour BokehDew on Meadow Flowers Yosemite National Park, California After freezing all night in our tent cabin we woke up early to try to grab some great morning light. Willie and Will wanted to take photos of a big tree in an open meadow with Half Dome but I wasn't all that interested so I threw on the macro lens and walked around the meadow. I've already posted one shot but I thought I'd post this other perspective of the same little flower guy. I thought there was some nice shape to this plant other than just the dew (which I posted previously). I also loved the bokeh in this shot Nikon D300s w/Sigma 105mm f/2.8 EX DG Macro: 105mm, f/6.3, 1/25 sec, ISO 400, Tripod
Rainbow's FoundWet Leaf on Ground Menlo Park, California Nikon D300s w/Sigma 105mm f/2.8 Macro
When I first got into photography, macro photos of flowers was one of my favorite subjects. As someone who didn't quite understand weather and what made for epic landscape photos, macro photos were easier to understand -- venture outside when the light was soft, preferably when there were some water droplets on the flowers, and bring a tripod and play with the camera. It's been a while since I had a usable macro lens but I fixed that and decided one day to play around with some tulips we bought at the farmers market. They were just starting to bloom and the pink colors were peeking out from the buds. I had inherited an amazing modern tapestry painting from my grandmother and it was the perfect background to the flowers. Nikon D850 w/Nikkor 105mm f/2.8 macro: 105mm, f/4, 1.3 sec, ISO 64 25 photos focus stacked using Affinity Photo
