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"Hot Lips" (Salvia Microphylla)

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Kev



Registered: February 2008
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I bought this Salvia plant today for the front garden and thought it would work OK as a test subject. Whilst it's not an overly WOW looking flower...
I did manage to use an f/22 aperture at close range AND still get a very creamy background bokeh...which was my goal here.
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richingr

Registered: October 2010
Posts: 1,459
Wed July 27, 2011 8:26am

Practice makes perfect . Interesting looking flower and bokeh perfect
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Kev

Registered: February 2008
Posts: 2,722
Wed July 27, 2011 8:42am

Yeah, even at f/22 one still only gets about 5mm of good depth at this 'almost macro' distance...but I think it's enough and I didn't want to over sharpen at all...just to help compensate.
The background was only about 20ft behind the subject this time.
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Clem

Registered: February 2011
Posts: 662
Wed July 27, 2011 10:56am

Another one of those plants where the flower pops out of the middle of the stem? You must have something in the water up there that does that. Wink
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Kev

Registered: February 2008
Posts: 2,722
Fri July 29, 2011 8:22am

Yeah, it's all the beaver cheese and moose poop that we put onto our soil...it makes all the leaves fall off Smile
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