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I had an interesting session photographing these sempervivium flowers. I had the camera tripod mounted for many of the pictures I took, and I kept asking Stephen to watch my camera while I took the card inside to check the depth of field on my computer!
These pictures were captured using a Pentax *ist DS digital SLR camera.
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I started out with my Tamron 85-210 manual focus lens, in macro mode, hand-held, for this picture of the flowers of Sempervivium Arachnoidea. This Sempervivium is so called because of the silky spider's web appearance of its leaf ball. |
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Then I decided to get serious about photographing these flowers and mounted the camera on a tripod. |
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I've cropped in a bit closer on the third of the three pictures above, giving this tighter composition. |
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Here I've got ultra-serious, swapping the Tamron, which at least has a zoom for ease of adjustment, for a 50mm lens and a set of extension tubes. The magnification is wonderful, but you wouldn't believe the number of trips in and out of the house to check the depth of field on the computer before I was satisfied with the result! |
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I kept the 50mm lens and the extension tubes and pointed them at a different Sempervivium variety. These flowers are really tiny, and somewhat different from the flowers of other Sempervivium varieties Stephen has grown in the front garden. |
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