The color and texture of this tulip reminded me of a ripe peach when I first saw it yesterday morning. Alas, it will be months before peaches will be in season and the canned cling peaches that I remember from my childhood can’t compare to the fresh ones.
Like so many of the wonderfully colorful flowers that I have featured recently, this beauty is from the garden of my neighbor and photography mentor Cindy Dyer. Thanks again, Cindy.
At this time of the year, I tend to shoot most often with my 180mm macro lens. With my APS-C crop sensor camera, I get an equivalent field of view of almost 300mm, which gives me some standoff distance for shooting live subjects like dragonflies. However, for shooting subjects like flowers, I found it difficult to frame the images because I was shooting from so far away. For this shot, I switched to a 60mm macro lens and shot with the aperture wide-open at f/2.8.
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You’ve got nice colors here. For f/2.8 you managed to get a lot in focus.
Thanks, Steve. I went back and rechecked the EXIF data and it was f/2.8, 1/1250, and ISO 400. I remember trying to get as parallel to the plane as I could. I was a little surprised at how the depth of field was as wide as it was, but figured that the increased depth of field came from me using a crop sensor body.
Peaches ! Ellen and just talked about them, and how can they get pickers for the local orchards. Peaches are as big in South Caroline as Georgia.
Wow. I had no idea that peaches came from South Carolina–Georgia definitely has better marketing. 🙂
They do 😀. I think the volume is pretty close too. I know when you hit Buford (near the border) peaches are everywhere. Even in Charleston there are plenty of orchards, and best of all…farmers markets 😀😀
Very Nice Mike! Beautiful Image!
Mouth-watering.
Real preachy peachy…
It does looks like fresh peaches – one of my favorite fresh fruits!
I love the composition on your floral photos, Mike.
Thanks, Dan. As you can see, I like to get in there pretty close and isolate a single flower or sometimes just a part of it. I am not very good in composing a shot with a whole lot of flowers. 🙂
Makes me just want to say, “Yum!”