Orchid, Phragmipedium - D700, 24-78mm f/2.8

At our friends home again, this time something that doesn’t move… Gil had quite a collection of orchids but only one was in bloom at the time. Shot this with my 24-70@70mm with a short extension tube and used an off camera flash (SB-800) with small LumiQuest soft-box. this is a combination of two shots, one at F/2.8 and one at f/11. Combined the two images in CS3, painting in the sharpness from the f/11 image. I knew enough to ask Gil to write the name of the orchid down for me…past experience DOES teach well.