Flowers are the jewels of spring. Colours arise everywhere, even in the most unsuspecting places. At the end of March I could spend a few hours between my home county and Maremma and keep exercising with flowers and the Meyer-Optik Görlitz Trioplan.
Sony α6000 + Meyer-Optik Görlitz Trioplan 100mm ƒ/2.8 @ 100 mm, 1/320 sec @ ƒ/2.8, +1.30 EV, ISO 100, hand-held, white light shade.
Ramo di ciliegio in fiore (Prunus avium).
Even plants such as rosemary and sage, which you don't normally associate with flowers, are capable of surprises in this season.
Sony α6000 + Meyer-Optik Görlitz Trioplan 100mm ƒ/2.8 @ 100 mm, 1/100 sec @ ƒ/2.8, +0.70 EV, ISO 100, tripod.
Rosmarino fiorito (Rosmarinus officinalis).
Sony α6000 + Meyer-Optik Görlitz Trioplan 100mm ƒ/2.8 @ 100 mm, 1/60 sec @ ƒ/2.8, +1.00 EV, ISO 100, tripod.
Rosmarino fiorito (Rosmarinus officinalis).
Sony α6000 + Meyer-Optik Görlitz Trioplan 100mm ƒ/2.8 @ 100 mm, 1/500 sec @ ƒ/2.8, +2.00 EV, ISO 100
Salvia selvatica (Salvia pratensis).
Sony α6000 + Meyer-Optik Görlitz Trioplan 100mm ƒ/2.8 @ 100 mm, 1/250 sec @ ƒ/2.8, +2.30 EV, ISO 100
Salvia selvatica (Salvia pratensis).
Greater periwinkle (Vinca major) is a little precious jewel that I sometimes find in hedges or dry stone walls, floating between shadow and sun light.
Sony α6000 + Meyer-Optik Görlitz Trioplan 100mm ƒ/2.8 @ 100 mm, 1/160 sec @ ƒ/2.8, +0.70 EV, ISO 100, tripod.
Pervinca maggiore (Vinca major).
Lungwort (Pulmunaria officinalis) has been another major surprise. Flowers are small, but so beautiful and even bi-coloured in many cases. For them I've tried the Trioplan with a rather long extension tube (32mm). Focusing is not easy — the depth of field is very shallow in these conditions — and the tripod was definitely required. Also, with such a long extension tube and a short working distance, focusing is better performed by slightly moving back and forth rather than with the focusing ring. I don't own a macro slider rail, but so far slightly loosening the tripod head clamp, so I can move the camera plate, has proved to work.
Sony α6000 + Meyer-Optik Görlitz Trioplan 100mm ƒ/2.8 @ 100 mm, 1/50 sec @ ƒ/2.8, +1.00 EV, ISO 100, 32mm extension tube, tripod.
Polmonaria maggiore (Pulmunaria officinalis).
Sony α6000 + Meyer-Optik Görlitz Trioplan 100mm ƒ/2.8 @ 100 mm, 1/40 sec @ ƒ/2.8, +1.00 EV, ISO 100, 16mm extension tube, tripod.
Polmonaria maggiore (Pulmunaria officinalis).