chasing the focus

Seems it’s been a while again since my last post. Sorry for that… I have been photographing some but never had enough energy or time or inspiration – or what ever – to prepare the photos for further use. However, here’s something.

In the summer mom always needs me to take care of her house plants when she vanishes into the country. This year she forgot to take her ultimate treasures – two miniature citrus trees – with her, so I moved them into my kitchen to make sure they won’t die while she’s away. And what do you know – one evening as I came home I was greeted by a strong sweet scent: One of the trees was blooming! And of course I had to photograph the flowers…

The first one is photographed with my Canon 7D using a Lensbaby 3G lens. That lens, unlike Lensbaby Composer, doesn’t need a special macro kit for getting closer to the subjects: By expanding the lens you can get the smallest focusing distance shrink. This is what I did in this first picture.

The second picture is also with the Lensbaby 3G but from a “normal” focusing distance.

The third photo is a sort of super macro: I used my excellent Canon 60 mm F2.8 macro lense attached to a Kenko 36 mm extension tube. The problem with a combination like this is that the depth of field becomes extremely limited. So here I used an aperture of f13 and it still wasn’t quite enough.

The fourth image is a traditional one – taken with a plain 60 mm macro lens. And truthfully – I find it rather boring.