My first white oriental poppy - almost black and white but there is a richness and subtlety that colour gives it.
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I like what Avril said. I also like the original although Doug's crop is cool too.
Nice talking to you today.
Reply to Post Script: Now you have totally lost me - I was better off just Dyslexic :-)
I really appreciate your input Doug - keep it coming - that is how we grow!
"Would it have been better with the hard-edged perimeter softened?"
It would have been different - not necessarily better - I have softened the edges in the image below.....still think softer is better?
For what I intended...it couldn't be better I achieved exactly what I wanted.
Viewer interpretation, over which none of us have control, may think otherwise but that is the beauty of art - it is all in the eye of the beholder.
Thanks for the confirmation Simon....I just have to really stop and think before I say anything (a good practice regardless) because to me a high number means wide open and low numbers mean closed down even though I know it is the other way around :-)
Wow! It seems that I have created a little bit of a design/technique controversy - COOL :-)
First the How....Camera - PowerShot SX50 HS (f/3.6-8.0) 50 times optical zoom 24mm-1200mm
.......................Settings - 1/250 sec @ f/8.0 ISO 80 120.75mm
.......................Post - no crop, no photoshop/layers, only minor tweak in Lightroom to up the contrast ever so slightly for the ripples in the petals
Now the Why....Simon you are right about macro/closeup usually using a shallow depth of field... and I normally use a shallow DoF for my closeups but I have been experimenting with a deeper DoF for more subject detail and I'm finding that at least with this camera I'm still getting interesting bokeh when I use it closed down to f/8.0 (as deep as I can go on this camera).
I started this shot in Macro mode but to get the framing I wanted I was casting a shadow on the subject so I backed up and zoomed in...that allowed the background which was in shadow to "disappear" into darkness.
Doug -Your crop has merits and frequently that is how I shoot flowers but this time I didn't want to focus only on the center...I particularly wanted the rings of alternating light and dark and was really pleased to have the petal edges as defined as they were.....:-) sorry it offends your sense of composition :-)
Avril - your allusion to food gets me where I live Yum! :-)
(I'm a little ashamed to admit that my dyslexia hinders me in using the correct terminology for DoF - to me wide open means I higher number and I know that is backward so I use Shallow to mean wide open, higher light, narrow Depth of Field and low number and Deep to mean closed down, lower light, wider Depth of Field and high numbers) sorry to through that in but just so you know my terms of reference :-)
Ooh, delicious--vanilla ice cream and blackberries. Love the shadows on the petals as well as that glorious deep purple.
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