D90 Flowers 1 of 2

[Fotografer]

Well, I've tried low light and lanscape (scenery), so now I'm going to go for flowers. Facing all kinds of challenges. Can't figure why an f stop one time seems to give a lot of DOF and another time doesn't. I'm finding that some monomchrome flowers while nice to look at with your eyes, are totally flat in a pictures. Tried to turn of the ADL a few times hoping to get more contrast. Again, just trying different things and asking here when I'm stuck. Constructive feedback is always a good thing. I read somewhere on this site that the focus is about 1/3 in front of your focus point and 2/3 behind. I think that is very helpful to know too.</p>
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<p>In-camera Sharpening was up on all of these. How much I'm not sure. Number 1 was one of the first picture batches for me and I'll bet that was set at 9 (0-9). I've since turned it down to 7 after reading most people are using 6 or 7.</p>
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<p>1. Spider Mum? F13, 1/60, 200, 45mm, Pattern Meter, Ap Priority</p>
<p><img src="http://i410.photobucket.com/albums/pp183/Fosterpuppy/D%2090%20Flora/SpiderMum-resized.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></p>
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<p>2. Red Pointy Flower :-) F8, 1/200, 200, 105mm, Pattern Meter, Ap Priority</p>
<p><img src="http://i410.photobucket.com/albums/pp183/Fosterpuppy/D%2090%20Flora/RedPointyFlowerresized.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></p>
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<p>3. Hibiscus F16, 1/60, 200, 105, Pattern, Ap Priority</p>
<p><img src="http://i410.photobucket.com/albums/pp183/Fosterpuppy/D%2090%20Flora/Hibiscusresized.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></p>
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<p>4. Cactus F5, 1/100, 200, 52mm, Pattern Meter, Normal Program</p>
<p><img src="http://i410.photobucket.com/albums/pp183/Fosterpuppy/D%2090%20Flora/Cactusresized.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></p>
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<p>5. Milkweed right? F16, 1/30, 450, 170mm, Center weighted meter, Ap priority</p>
<p><img src="http://i410.photobucket.com/albums/pp183/Fosterpuppy/D%2090%20Flora/Milkweedright-resized.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></p>
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<p>6. Milkweed left? F16, 1/30, 200, 200mm, Center weighted meter, Ap priority</p>
<p><img src="http://i410.photobucket.com/albums/pp183/Fosterpuppy/D%2090%20Flora/Milkweed-leftresized.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></p>
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