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by Marjo

Comment:
What marvelous timing. If you had been using a longer lens, you would probably not have this scene. Sometimes a little wider view makes us see more of what it there to shoot. The birds contrast quite nicely against the rather busy BG in this shot, due to good focus and their brighter colors.

Mar 22 - Inside a tulip
by hajeka

Comment:
I run into the same focus problems when I get in close. I seem to shoot most of my macro outdoors using my monopod, and generally there is just enough breeze to keep everything moving a little. When you get this close to a subject, DOF is very tiny. Some of the better micro macros are done by shooting a group of shots at slightly differing focus points, and then masking the OOF areas and stacking them to achieve greater DOF than can be done in a single exposure. I think that there is a DPC tutorial on it somewhere.
Ext tubes are my choice too for this sort of thing. I sometimes use an 11 mm tube on a 20mm lens and it is a great combo if you can put the lens right on the subject.

Fishing Fleet
by Germaine

Comment:
Perfect exposure for a night shot. This is a very picturesque place, I miss the salt air, but I expect that is smells a little fishy at this location LOL.

Color Coordinated
by vawendy

Comment:
Congrats on another of your fine bird shots making the front page!

Spring lamb
by patio127

Comment:
That's cute with the one ear up and the other down. The light subject in the dark and OOF BG put the attention right into the lamb. It's too bad that they have to put in an ear tag like that. Little lamb is "stylin'" now, all it needs is a couple of tattoos.

your love is like sand in my hands
by the99

Comment:
Shallow DOF and toning works nicely for this.

Mar 20 - Tulips
by hajeka

Comment:
Very pretty. I like the neutral background for these.
Bummer, I missed the magic moment. I did however, capture the lunar eclipse of the Pleiades for my memorable equinox moment. : )

Cellar 205
by Germaine

Comment:
I like the street lighting for this, and love the old 59'ish Chevy Apache pickup. One of my high school pals had one like it, and we drove it all over the place.

luna linda
by the99

Comment:
The beach is always so peaceful at night. It looks like there was a stampede there earlier in the day. I wonder what caused the starring on the moon and the light on shore?

Mother Ship
by Germaine

Comment:
I like the ziggles in the water in this. I found it interesting that my first thought was " I wonder if those skiffs can drift under the dock and be stuck there or sunk when the tide comes back up? "