Water Lily II

This was taken using my Canon S90 pocket camera, a "point & shoot" at

Mama's Fish House on Maui's North Shore.

excellent image superb colors congrats gerolamo

Wonderful colors and very good light-management. Best regards.

A very elegant image, with great sharpness and saturation. Nice management of lighting. 

DG

Thank you.  Light management was made easy with the S90 as I was able to dial in exposure where I needed it.  Shoots RAW too, which is why it lives in my pocket.

Excellent work! (6)

very nice capture- glad you pointed and shot!

Brilliant capture.I like the natural lighting , colours & crisp sharp petals.Well done Dominick.

Beautiful colours and lighting here, Dominick!

With best regards,

Ruud.

The partial lighting of this flower made it more dramatic in this very detailed and crisp presentation. Beautiful shot! Regards, Dominick.

great lighting and colors...congrats...7.....David...pn won't allow it so i will give it a 6...they need to change that, i'm not sure what the big kahuna is...

One more thing- been thinking about this for awhile. I don't understand how you got this DOF - ie  so clear with obvious difference in distance from lens in front and rear flowers with 2.8?

Whenever I try to use 2.8, the dof is so shallow it almost makes sense only with flat objects ( or from a great distance)

anyway, still beautiful shot.

G

G&V,  This camera is the size of a pack of playing cards.  With it's very small sensor and lens, even shooting wide open, the depth of field covers a wide range.  The maximum aperture is 2.0 so I was shooting 1 stop from fully open.  I'm sure Mike P. could explain why better.  Aloha.

G&V, Mike had this to offer:

Since the lens is a very short focus , even at F/2.8 the DOF is relatively large. If you were one meter (about 3 feet) from the subject, then the DOF would be 1/3 of that distance or 1 foot. Unless you manually focused the camera, the autofocus point was most likely centered in the flower arrangement which provided good balance across the entire focus range.

Now, if your distance from the scene was 2 meters (about 6 feet), then the DOF is four times greater than my first example.

So, besides the large DOF (depending upon your working distance), shooting at F/2.8 assures that the sensor is getting the maximum performance from the lens. Shooting at F/4 , F/5.6 , F/8 and greater, gradually reduces the lens performance for your camera/lens system.

Best Regards, Mike

I think this is such a beautiful capature Dominick! The detail is fatastic and colour - well, truly lovely. I love it!

What a luxurious beauty!

Best regards Dominick

PDE

Royal colors that go with the season.  Merry Christmas to you and your family...  Mike