In Photograph #7 I said that I enjoy taking photographs of flowers in monochrome but of course, that doesn’t mean that I don’t also process flower photographs in colour. The following two images show two different approaches to flower photography.
The first is a single bloom with the lens opened to an aperture of f/1.8. This gives a very shallow field of focus that has resulted in the background being out of focus and even the edges of the petals closest to the camera being blurred. The background has been left dark to emphasise the flower itself and the final result is a soft, gentle image where the only parts in focus are the edges of the left-side petals and the centre of the flower.
In contrast to this image, the second is a photograph of a section of a flower meadow that was taken at f/9.0 and the small aperture retains good sharpness and detail throughout the image. The aim of the photograph was to get an impression of the intricacy, delicacy and different colours of a field of wild flowers. The eye is drawn to the two large flowers at the bottom and then moves to the poppy just off centre and then up to the top left of the frame.
The photographs were taken on a Nikon D7100 with a Nikkor 35, f/1.8 lens.
Delicate
The Meadow
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Both stunning!
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