Dan Perovich's Cyberfront Property

Photo365-20091214 – The Plastic Kind, originally uploaded by HokiePerogi.
1/8 sec @ f/4.0, ISO 400, 200 mm (EF70-200mm f/4L IS USM)

The autumn wreath on the back of our front door has been calling out to me over the past few weeks to take its picture.  I finally got around to it tonight.  I used my 70-200mm lens and zoomed in as far as it would go in order to get a tight closeup of some of the leafs on the wreath.  Out of the three lens that my fiancee and I own, the 70-200mm lens lets us get the closest closeup.  However, we have to stand at least six to eight feet away from the subject in order to get it in focus.  The lack of a good macro or close up lens has me reevaluating, once again, whether or not my next lens purchase will be a 100mm macro or a 24-70mm / 24-105mm all-purpose.  I have thought about purchasing an extension tube to use with my current lens, but I would much rather have a dedicated macro lens that lets in much more light.

I brought today’s photograph into Photoshop so that I could play around with Topaz Adjust presets on it.  Ultimately, I picked a present which enhanced the fine details in the fake leafs and made the colors pop.  As a last step, I applied a slight darkening vignette.