This is a second in a series of shots of Hosta flowers in our back yard this August. I captured this with my Nikon Z7ii and Sigma 65mm F2 lens (E mount with E to Z Adapter) on a tripod. It was a partly cloudy, hazy morning with initially no direct sunlight, but nice soft light. Then, the sun started peaking through the clouds just a little, and highlighted the flowers a bit more, but still with beautiful softness to the light.

As the sun came through, the breeze picked up a bit, so I raised the ISO to 560 to get my shutter speed up a bit to combat the movement, and because I stopped down to f4 to get a little more depth of field. The Sigma 65/2 has a beautiful soft bokeh, even at F4 (shutter speed of 1/250).

I manually focused right on the green leaves so that everything else would be soft. I enhanced the softness even more by reducing the contrast of the image overall, and sharpening just the tips of the green flowers - which were really the only thing in focus anyway. I did not apply any noise reduction, as the grain adds to the softness of the image, IMO.

My wife wants a large flower print to put up in our bedroom, and this is the image she chose.