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PHOTO SHOOTING TECHNIQUES
•3) photographs of “very small blooms”
It's for example the case of the blooms of Rhipsalis which have only 3 to 10mm (0.1 to 0.4 inches) approximately of diameter or photographs of details of stamens or pistil of larger blooms. We really enter here the field of the macro photography where the size of the image on the sensor is greater than or equal to that of the photographed object.
The problems of focusing, depth of field and light metering obey the same rules as those exposed in the previous paragraph of photographs of small blooms.
Pfeiffera boliviana clone ISI 95-7
diaphragm aperture: F/29
exposure time: 1/60s
illumination: natural light (sun) + off-camera flash illuminating laterally from left to right
comment: The bloom on the left has a diameter of approximately 1cm (0.4 inch). It's the only one which is entirely clear; the essential part of the bloom on the right is also clear, in the medium and in background, a bud as well as the stem are blurry, which is also good because the foreground of the two blooms stands out better.________________________________
close-up on the pistil of Hylocereus x 'Connie Mayer'
diaphragm aperture: F/32
exposure time: 1/60s
illumination: natural light (dying sunlight) + off-camera flash, set on the left of the camera.
comment: the entire pistil is clear and stands out against the petals which are blurry.
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