Cool Picture Tony, Photo Composition is a whole realm on it's own.


Warren,

That's a good question. Everything on the camera was on Auto but I had to overcome a couple of obstacles. First, there was not enough ambient light to do much of anything but I knew the flash would yield a reasonably good picture but there was not enough light for the auto-focus to lock in. With the camera auto-focus pattern set for Center I illuminated the flower head with a hand-held spotlight in one hand and the camera in the other. After the lens focused I locked the focus it by depressing the capture button half way, then released the button on the hand-held light and fired the camera w/flash. It took a couple of attempts but this is what I ended up with. As it was, I ended up with a shutter speed of 1/40 sec. which is not ideal. A tripod and some more artificial lighting would have made it much easier but I didn't want to illuminate the background too much. This is what I mean when I say experiment with your camera. It's Free.