05 Sep 14.  For today's macro shot we'll look closely into a lily that was on display in a local nursery. My goal in this shot was the obvious (that which is sharply in focus) as well as perhaps the not so obvious, the blast of color. This is once occasion where I think it possible to successfully have two centers of interest without them competing. In fact, I'm betting that when seeing the image, if you looked at it before reading this, the idea of two points of interest likely didn't cross your mind. I've taken the original and cropped away all but the very center of the blossom, however, the cropped off amount was very little as I positioned the camera to get as close a focus as the lens would allow and zoomed it out to 200mm which was an effective 300mm for a conventional film or full sized sensor digital camera. This made for a very tight composition. I also added a small amount of micro contrast enhancement which tends to amplify any noise in the image, and the small resultant amount I've left in, even though it wasn't in the original, to give the petals a bit more depth. Nikon D300s; 18 - 200; Aperture Priority;ISO 400; 1/2500 sec @ f / 7.1.
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