Dandelion

First use of Kenko Extension tubes. Your feedback is welcome...

Please view larger ! I guess some people won't like the post-processing...

I love the way you get on focus the fine detail structure of the "surface"... great work

Great picture, I like to focus on the center, and the outer softness. Very well done.

Speaking of things that I want - I too want to get an extension tube for more close up stuff - I have seen alot of these dandies on here, I like the soft brown background used here - it looks great - I may have to get me one of these tubes soon - have you liked it?

Alain, have passed this by many times as a thumbnail and finally decided to open it up. A pleasant surprise. A lovely image of the often shot dandelion. would really like to see color version. nicely done!

Thanks to all of you for your kind words !

The soft brown background is the result of the post-processing. The B&W image was converted to a trichromatic picture. Sorry, I think this is not the right term, but I can't remember how you call that in English. It's like a sepia conversion. I'm quite happy with my extension tubes, although I've only used them very rarely, being rather interested into portraits. I wonder if a rather cheap lense like the Canon EFS 60mm macro isn't much more easy to use and lighter. But I'm a total newbie in the world of macro...

Unfortunately there's no color version. When I took this picture, I wasn't familiar neither with RAW files nor Photoshop. And it was just a test shooting. I took a few color pictures, but they are not as sharp as this one. And this one was taken with the B&W mode on the camera, JPEG only. Time has passed and today I would shoot this in a different way...

Soft and beautiful.

I love the colors.

BR Siw

Dandelion or Taraxacum is a flowering plant that can be found in different places all over the world,I like the accurate details you have here with nice focus on the center of the flower that turned smoothly to be blurry in the edges. I like the colors contrast that make this photo really fresh. It makes me think "how beautiful the life is?".