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So geraniums grow over here like a pernicious weed, but my wife loves them so what can I do.  I took a few shots, keep in mind I'm still trying to get a sense of how ISO, aperture, and shutter speed work together so these were taken on full manual. 

Here is the photo untouched by Photoshop/Aperture:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_farleys/4657009265/sizes/l/

Here is the same photo after a little cropping for interest and a bit of B&W tweaking:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_farleys/4656939201/sizes/l/

The garden is in pretty bad shape so forgive the singed edge smack dab in the middle of the photo. All feedback welcome.  To me, the DOF is far from what I wanted but with the lens I used the lowest I could get was around 5.6 so I'm not sure what else I could do to control that.

I don't know about the technicalities. Those are beautiful pictures, both the colour and the B&W.  Well done!

A beautiful flower.  Did you use Photoshop to remove the color?

Thanks gals.

This one I happened to have open in Aperture so I used that to tweak the color. However, six in one half a dozen in the other - I use both Photoshop and Aperture depending on what mood I'm in.