Flash or no flash?

25/09/11 Birmingham Botanical Gardens Part II

Choosing the landscape mode automatically enhances the blues and greens (see first two images). This can also be achieved by selecting the 'vibrant' colour filter. The water feature was captured in sports mode.

24/09/11 Birmingham Botanical Gardens

I used the macro mode on my Panasonic Lumix compact camera to get the detail of this branch whilst giving a blurred background.

Pooch

Unfortunately I did not save the original image of this photo, though all I did was crop the picture as previously there were some wilting petals on the right. My macro mode on my Panasonic Lumix FS5 with a cheap version (from Amazon) of the Gorilla Tripod allowed me to get great detail on the petals of this flower. It did need cropping, as the detail showed the wilting edges which took the elegance away from the shot.

Did I mention I loved flowers?

Yet another photo of garden flowers, this time after a great British Summer down-pour! I used the Macro mode and a tripod for a sharper image of the flower and blurred background.

Artificial flowers

On the rocks