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Bob Williams wrote:

Donn Thorson wrote:
An UFO: Unidentified Flowering Object...


Hi Donn,
Please accept this critique in the spirit in which it was given, ie.,to
help you produce better macro shots of flowers.
You take a lot of Macro shots of flowers which are my favorite
photographic subjects. But for some reason, the vast majority of then
are out of focus and lack sharpness.
Perhaps part of the reason might be that you are shooting at maximum
aperture and the depth of field is extremely shallow. But on many shots,
including this one, the central image itself is out of focus.
Perhaps your AF control is faulty or if you are using manual focusing,
the diopter setting on your eyepiece may be set incorrectly.
From the picture of your Macro rig, which you recently posted, it seems
that you use your laptop as your viewing screen. One would think that
this would give you excellent control of image quality before tripping
the shutter. But something is awry.
See if you can figure out why the images are not sharp and remedy it as
best you can.
I enjoy looking at your images but would enjoy them much more if they
were sharper.
Good Luck on your efforts.
Bob Williams

Hmmm...bye-bye group!
Moving On.

-Donn