Spring Blossom

Objective was to take a classic theme of having a foreground, middle, and background however trying to use nice depth of field to maintain the middle in focus whilst obscuring but keeping identifiable the foreground and background.

 

Oh yeah the other objective i set myself was to take a daffodil which i guess kinda didn't work out too well

 

Setup f1.7 50mm prime / manual focus - While i love the lens i'm still struggling with the manual focus as i think can be seen in the image - the bud in the middle is the intended focal point / consequence of the branch at same distance being in focus also but i think the bud is a little soft (?).

 

Not much processing - Silkypix used. A small amount of crop - i thought a 16x9 looked nice and I up'd the contrast a little. That was about it i think.

 

One part that bothers me slightly is the darkness of the left hand side of the image which basically was the side of a red brick pilliar and consequently in the shadow. Yes i could crop it out but then i'd lose my foreground(!)

Done