Week 5-Details

This week's assignment was a little bit frustrating for me because my camera doesn't like to use it's "macro feature". It's cute, the screen shows me a beautifully framed macro shot that would be perfect and when I try to take the picture, it says "too close to focus"!!! So I had to play with the manual focus, shutter speed, f-stops, etc. until I could get something usable. I did like the way the stalk of my sunflower plant came out, but I wasn't totally happy with the overall results so I tried the scanning process. That was frustrating as well because my scanner somehow captures a heavily lined and gray background when the lid is left open. Lots of digital editing needed to be done to those! I was a little bit happier with those results, but overall I'm thinking that I need better equipment to capture what I'd like when taking macro shots. Please be kind in judging these!!!