In the garden it seems that I have the best success with plants going to seed. Italian Parsley is the best at this, plant it one week, seeding the next. At the moment I have some neglected spring onions and leeks. Neither returned much of a crop that I was able to cook with but both are now producing the most amazing seed pods which gave me the perfect opportunity to bring out the 60mm macro.
I stated out watering my lemon with my camera in hand with the 12-40 pro lens in place. I wanted a photo to prove that my lemon tree is producing fruit, even if it seems the wallabies are eating it before it ripens.
Then I noticed the leeks have rather attractive seed buds just starting to bloom. As I was shooting this bug came in to land and stayed long enough for me to get a focussed shot.
Original shot with 12-40 Pro
I’ve been teaching myself LightRoom, I’m not sure what I’m doing and welcome any feedback on this cropped version of the previous photo.
Crop
I decided to see what the difference in photo ‘quality’ was using a specific macro lens with my tripod. This is a different pod that was closer to the ground and easier for me to shoot with my tripod setup. I have quite a few photos where I varied focal point and depth of field. Of course half way through my experiments a slight breeze came up. So my focus bracketing attempts aren’t stacking very well.
This spring onion flower caught my eye and it was interesting to see what effect physically moving the camera gave to the shot.
This is where I was hoping to have some success with focus bracketing, unfortunately the breeze was just there and created too much movement.
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