Macro picture of Chives

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By Simon Hawketts ·

Whilst I was writing my post about macro options at the weekend I felt inspired to go out into the garden with my Tamron 90mm macro lens mounted on my Nex 6 to put into practice some of the techniques I'd been writing about. This picture was taken in the small herb garden where we have mint, basil etc growing and I found the chives had small flowers growing. I got down low so I could focus on one flower whilst getting another in the background, which I think aids composition.

I did a small amount of post-processing in Lightroom to tweak the exposure and increase the clarity slightly, and put a small amount of additional blur on the flower head in the background.

  • Sony Nex 6
  • Tamron 90mm f/2.8 macro
  • iso 125
  • 1/1000

Comments (6)

  1. kilted1
    I love the colours Simon and the bokeh is wonderful.

    Comments (1)

    1. Simon Hawketts
      Thanks David
  2. Pat
    Lovely.
  3. Nikki Frazier
    Beautiful work.

    Comments (2)

    1. Simon Hawketts
      Thank you Nikki
    2. Simon Hawketts
      Thanks Pat