I took home a couple of ranunculus plants from work the other day to photograph. I was trying to take a flower 'portrait' but despite various experiments with lighting etc I couldn't get anything I liked - the photos just didn't 'work'. The first image shows the best I got. I don't know what's wrong with it but it just looks boring to me.
Over lunch I flicked through a flower photography book for ideas and realised I could do better by cropping in tighter with the macro lens. The second image is a close up of a single petal showing the wonderful texture with the lens as close as it would go. The third is a shot of another flower which was tighter in bud.
