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flowers or geometry

We went to Biddulph Grange last week, and I took the opportunity to indulge in some (oh all right then, a lot of) photography using my 300mm lens. It’s a long time since I’ve taken more than just a few quick shots, and I found that I was rather rusty, to the extent that I forgot just how short a depth of field that lens has.

In many of the shots, I was using the perspective-flattening characteristics of the lens to concentrate on patterns among the strong geometric shapes of square-cut hedges or alternating light and dark foliage, all emphasised by the contrasts caused by strong, bright sunlight casting deep shadows. On reviewing the results back at home, however, I was disappointed to find that so little of each shot was in focus, and the effect wasn’t as strong as I’d hoped.

Still, that same characteristic worked reasonably well in the shots of flowers.

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Tuesday, June 8th, 2010 photography No Comments