Cranesbill Cultivar

[Dennis_Plank]

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Description

We spent a few days last week near the town of Forks on the Olympic Peninsula and the lodge we stayed at still had some flowers in bloom. These were probably the most prolific and I couldn’t resist photographing them. Unfortunately there was a bit too much breeze to do a focus stack, so the rear flower isn’t quite as sharp as I’d like.

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Does the relatively limited depth of field still work? I had difficulty choosing the crop on this one and I do have room on all sides to change it at least a bit. Anything else?

Technical Details

Sony A7Riv, FE 70-200 f/4 macro + 2.0 TC @ 204 mm (teleconverter was on for trying to photograph a spider), hand held, f/29, 1/100, iso 1250. Processed in LR & PS CC. Cropped to 8152x5297.

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[SandyR-B (Sandy Richards-Brown)]

Great catch - cranesbill are very pretty. I like the petal and stamen detail, the angle of the flowers, the buds, and the BG.

[John_Williams]

Those are lovely Dennis. Fortunate that there were still nice blooms, and good call on stopping to photograph them.

Normally the focus would bug me, but here it has an interesting affect of making that right bloom be the star; I don’t think it’s really an issue. Crop looks good too.

My only thought would be to let those flowers pop just a little more.

[Dennis_Plank]

Thanks @John_Williams I like the extra pop. I’ll have to play with that.

[Kris_Smith (Kristen M Smith)]

I’d rather have both flowers sharp. It’s just bugging me that the left one isn’t quite. A two shot stack would have done it. The OOF foliage is fine.