Yesterday I met up with a photographer friend for a few minutes at Sherman’s Gardens. This is one of my favorite places to take floral images at. Knowing how much I like getting close to flowers, and that the Burnside 35 only lets me do close ups from 6″, I had ordered some Close up filters. When I left home I saw our mailman by the mailboxes, and I asked him if he maybe had a package for me. Luckily he did, and I was able to try out the Burnside with some magnification.
First I took test shots at a spot where I had taken one with the Sweet 50 before. They weren’t composed exactly the same way, but I liked the Sweet 50 image much more at this place than the Burnside 35. The latter I found too busy even with the vignette.

I then isolated one succulent by moving closer to it and using the +4 close up filter. (Thanks mailman for digging it out for me from your mail truck.) I really liked the results now.

Here is another image that I really liked of a tropical ginger plant:

I loved how the Burnside with the vignette placed the emphasis on the tiny yellow and pink blooms on this Malaysian Orchid (Medinilla Myriantha):

​One of my most favorite floral images of the day, where the Burnside 35 did an awesome job was this Dahlia image. You can see how the F2.8 aperture combined with the largest vignette AND the right subject will create the wonderful swirly motion around your subject.

I used the same settings on this last image as well, but I am not in love with the sky portion of the picture. I still wanted to include it here, because the sand castle surrounded by the Dahlias is a super interesting art piece at the Sherman’s Library and Gardens right now.

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