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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dangerspouse" data-source="post: 721930" data-attributes="member: 46690">Some of the shots I took for this week's "Leaf" challenge.I've wanted to try taking a picture through a water droplet for a while now, so this seemed like a good opportunity. Unfortunately I couldn't get a drop big or round enough to make a good lens. Searching online it seems the secret is to add some glycerine to the water, but lacking any I did the best I could. Unfortunately, "the best I could" did not result in what I thought was a very good shot. This is a cilantro leaf shot through a bubble that I built up with a toothpick on a blade of grass. If you're familiar with cilantro leaves you can probably make it out, but if you're not...well:[ATTACH]328073[/ATTACH]Then I moved onto one of our poinsettia plants, which had one very interesting leaf that was variegated in color, mostly red and green with some yellow. I first tried a low key shot of the tip, but I had a real time of it trying to get more than one small area of the leaf in focus. Like most leaves it curled at random points, and I had trouble getting a deep enough DOF to make it acceptable:[ATTACH]328074[/ATTACH]I then took a picture of the middle of the leaf, which lay a bit flatter. I put a baby spotlight behind it, almost touching, to back light it. Although the right side did curl away some which put that portion out of focus, I like the overall effect. It's the one I entered:[ATTACH]328075[/ATTACH]I know I could have focus stacked and gotten everything sharp on those last two pictures, but I really wanted to try it without. I'm glad I did, it was fun manipulating the various components to get the best shot I could.Can I add also how much I love that little Nikkor 40mm Micro? I think I paid 90 bucks for it, used, from B&H. It was the lens I purchased with the body, and was the only lens I had for some months afterwards. It's still my favorite.</blockquote>

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