Tag Archives: Depth of Field

Jun 23 2014
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Blue Monday: Busy Bee

Blue Monday: Busy Bee

Blue Monday: Busy Bee

The gardens are all just heavenly for bees at the moment! In a few days time Simon and I will be on Kos, one of the beautiful Greek Islands. I’m really looking forward to a bit of Kos Thyme Honey on fresh bread for my breakfasts 🙂 Thyme flourishes all over the island which is also dotted with clusters of Greek-blue beehives! Driving along the roads of Kos with the windows down is a wonderfully fragranced journey 🙂

Aug 23 2013
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Focus

Focus

Weekly Photo Challenge: Focus
Festival of Flowers: Week 11

This week the photo challenge is all about how aperture and depth of field affect the areas of focus within an image.

Depth of field can also be altered by how close you are to your subject. Today I stuck to photographing one flower, a chrysanthemum, using my 30mm macro lens at f2.8 and manually changing the focal point to show you the different effects.

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Being very close to my subject, as well as having a wide aperture, gives me a very shallow depth of field. Changing my focal point from the centre of the flower to the edge of the petal makes a dramatic change to how the subject is viewed.

Which do you prefer?

Mar 5 2013
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Sleeping Beauties

Sleeping Beauties

Sleeping Beauties

Enduring winter
‘Neath our feet,
Where once crisped
With frost, soft
Shaded monotones
In snow and ice.
The great mother’s
Sweeping brush
Paints bright
This wondrous
Landscape with light.
As seasons shift
Sunlight creeps
In nascent tendrils
Caressing the earth,
Birthing hidden delights.
Kindled with warmth
A frenzied awakening
Ruptures forth.
A declaration of
Life renewed,
Spring suffused in
Rich saffron hues.
A thousand golden
Croci create this
Crowning glory to anoint
Nature’s personification.

RHS Wisley Gardens are brightly carpeted with crocuses/croci right now. When the sunlight catches them they truly come alive! Just glorious 🙂

http://www.rhs.org.uk/gardens/wisley