A Tight Squeeze
The theme for “Smile on Saturday” for the 14th of May is "small part sharp" which requires that the 'focused part' of the image is quite small; most of the picture should be almost entirely blurred.
I had chosen an image of a tree branch covered in lichen with a selective focus used creating a shallow depth of field. Then, as I was on a walk through suburban Melbourne on a sunny afternoon to capture the autumnal colours, I spotted some colourful mauve seaside daisies low to the ground in a suburban garden. As I crouched low to the ground to photograph them, I noticed a tiny veined seed pod of some kind, wedged tightly into a crack in an old wooden railway sleeper used as a garden edging. The seed pod drew my attention because of its wonderful, almost Art Nouveau patterning. I decided I would try and create selective focus on the seed by creating a shallow depth of field, and this is the image I came up with.
I do hope that you like my choice for the theme, and that it makes you smile.
A Tight Squeeze
The theme for “Smile on Saturday” for the 14th of May is "small part sharp" which requires that the 'focused part' of the image is quite small; most of the picture should be almost entirely blurred.
I had chosen an image of a tree branch covered in lichen with a selective focus used creating a shallow depth of field. Then, as I was on a walk through suburban Melbourne on a sunny afternoon to capture the autumnal colours, I spotted some colourful mauve seaside daisies low to the ground in a suburban garden. As I crouched low to the ground to photograph them, I noticed a tiny veined seed pod of some kind, wedged tightly into a crack in an old wooden railway sleeper used as a garden edging. The seed pod drew my attention because of its wonderful, almost Art Nouveau patterning. I decided I would try and create selective focus on the seed by creating a shallow depth of field, and this is the image I came up with.
I do hope that you like my choice for the theme, and that it makes you smile.