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Petals surrounding

The peony bush in our garden was blossoming in profusion. These images offer an abstraction of their petals.

 

I am still learning how to effectively use the Raynox macro adapter. With f/6.3 on a medium telephoto lens, the DOF is so narrow that the resulting image has only a sliver of the petal in sharp focus. The result is a very impressionistic image, not typical of most macro adapters.

 

While reviewing the final RAW files, I realized that the white peony petals were beautiful abstractions of human interaction and I labelled them accordingly.

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Uploaded on June 29, 2014
Taken on June 15, 2014