Here is another way to take creative photographs of flowers. I show several ways to do this a few weeks ago. In this case. I used a soon lens with a show shutter speed and simply zoomed in as I clicked the shutter speed.
I used my 70-200mm lens at F4 and a shutter speed of 1/6 of a second.
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