Hi Darren


The aperture (f22) on three of the shots is extremely narrow. I am sure some of the more experienced posters on here can tell you about the minimum aperture you can use before diffraction becomes an issue. I would have thought an aperture of somewhere around f8 would have given you the depth of field you are looking for without requiring such a long shutter speed handheld. There are also DOF calculators online if you wanted to get a more precise idea but trial and error is the way to go I think.


My other personal preference is to use a circular polarising filter for the shots where there is bright daylight on trees/plants. It wont always help as its dependent on the angle of the lens to the reflections off the subject but it might help with the saturation of some of the colours such as the greens in Image 2.


For image 3 you might have stopped down the aperture maybe to f4 to try and get the flower directly above the subject flower in focus also. Its too close to really knock into the background so it may be better just to bring it in focus also. It always hard in these situations to get a nice isolated flower to target.


Sorry to pick on the 4th shot but maybe you could have avoided the floodlight.


Hope that helps