I have a beautiful amaryllis that grows very fast and reminds me every day of the dear friend who gave it to me. I have tried to take this picture with a 50 mm prime lens but focus is a problem!
It's a lovely capture of a lovely flower Caterina. It's a little soft but still pretty 😊 I love my 50mm prime lens, especially for that wonderful shallow dof 😊
@caterina. Why are you having focusing problems? Are you too close to your subject? Or maybe your shutter speed is a little slow so boost your ISO up a little for a faster shutter speed. Or add some light to your subject with either a flash or a reflector. I use a tripod for a lot of my still life images and shoot in live view. And I use a cable release. No camera shake then. Hope these help 😊
Well, I just love the amaryllis flowers. And I'm glad you have one that shows such a huge flower head. I think your choice of the nifty fifty lens was a good one. Although a difficult one, if you use the the 3.2 aperture. Your dof is very limited and you have to be very exact in focusing. You have probably one a thin line of a couple of milimeters, that are sharp and the rest will blur. This is beautful, when the focus is spot on. A tripod is a must and try to use manual focus and choose wisely, where you wanna focus on. If you use auto focus select -Single-point AF
You can focus on the subject selecting one of the provided focus points according to your composition. I most probably would have had the focus on the stemen and filaments.
By the way, a good thing to train shallow dof and focus with the nifty fity is a newspaper. You can mark a special writen line and try to focus right on this one.
I like this too! But think it needs a more light focus on the flower. You may try a filter on picmonkey or other to see what it looks like highlighted a bit.
You can focus on the subject selecting one of the provided focus points according to your composition. I most probably would have had the focus on the stemen and filaments.
By the way, a good thing to train shallow dof and focus with the nifty fity is a newspaper. You can mark a special writen line and try to focus right on this one.