Iris

This flower has been in the box in front of my porch for more than a year and it bloomed for the first time yesterday. My wife asked me to photograph it.

Tight: Nikon D600, 70-200mm

Wide: Canon 6D, 14mm, handheld speedlight

Macro: Canon 6D, vintage Sears 28mm f/2.8 lens* w/ a fotodiox macro reverse ring, one set of extension tubes, one set of focusing rails mounted to a tripod, one yongno speedlight (handheld) with remote, using HSS. (All of this was complicated by the wind.)

Why three? At first I just wanted to do the macro (for practice). Then I did the tight shot because I thought that was what she wanted most. Then I thought of something Alan Watts said, “for every outside there is an inside, and for every inside there is an outside,” so I had to do the wide.

*I picked up the 28mm lens specifically for reverse-lens macro work. (I’m not even sure what the camera mount is) It had a manual aperture ring and it didn’t rattle when I shook it. This shot was without the extension tubes. The wind made it too difficult to focus at that distance.