I’ve been wanting to experiment with my 70 – 200 mm zoom lens for flower photography. I used to have a zoom lens that worked great for this but the manufacturers are now making them so that the minimum focusing distance is about 4 ft so that even zoomed in you can’t get a closeup of the flower. So, I decided to try it with an extension tube and it worked like a charm. As this is probably my sharpest lens I’m pretty excited about the possibilities.
I loved the composition on this image but I wasn’t too happy with the background which was black in the upper left and white in the lower right. So, between a lightroom preset and a texture I managed to bring them back toward brown to be more compatible with the flower and I even like the grungy texture that it added, especially in the corners.