You can get a good photo in any kind of weather. Today was gloomy with heavy rain, but as it lightened up a bit in the early evening, I went to my neighbour’s garden with my macro lens and a tripod. This kind of shot is difficult to get right because you want a fair amount of depth of field and a background blur at the same time. I took this one using manual focus at f/8 with a shutter speed of just 1/5 second to keep the ISO at 100. The sharpness is pretty good overall, although only the centre is fully in focus. The image has not been sharpened.
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