Congrats to you both on your new equipment
Steve, I don't like the focus there either.
I'd like to see what it would look like with the same depth but a different placement of focus i.e. on the anthers--might be cool--but I'd probably go with higher f myself...
Re Photoshop--
When the word is used to describe the dramatic alteration of a photo such that it's obviously not 'real', and converted into a verb as in "he photoshopped that image" to mean the falsification of said image regardless of the editing program used to do it, I can understand the objections to "Photoshop". Likewise, when the word is used to cover a multitude of photo-editing sins like over saturating, sharpening, contrasting, colorshifting, artifacting, etc., regardless of the program used, as if Photoshop is the only editing program that people can wreck a photo with, I can agree that photoshopping aka bad editing is undesirable.
I don't have Photoshop. I wish I did; and I wish I knew how to use it. Aside from the outlandish edits or enhancements, I really see it as a superb and versatile tool to produce a fine image into an even finer image by someone who did a good job when it is done well
I can usually tell when an image has been well edited and it doesn't bother me in the least, except the envy/jealousy part. I admire the skill
