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"Now, Navigation" (Dana Haugaard) on the Eastside Atlanta BeltLine Trail
Official description: Stainless steel concentric circle patterns that reflect and abstract the surrounding environment as well as passersby who engage with the work.
They look amusingly dramatic to me in this shot. Like they are in a Bergman film. Which they are certainly not. Kitties: go back to acting class.
Third in a series of pictures that emphasise what's in the foreground. Perhaps overdid the blurring of the background on this one... f/5.6 perhaps?
USS Allen (DD-66) in the foreground escorts troopships SS France and USS Mount Vernon (ID-4508) across the Atlantic Ocean. Following the United States’ entry into World War I, the ships of the Cruiser and Transport Force carried troops and supplies of the American Expeditionary Force to France. A lack of available ships forced the Navy to rely on commandeered or requisitioned ships to take millions of men and supplies to the shores of Europe. USS Allen (DD-66) in the foreground escorts troopships SS France and USS Mount Vernon (ID-4508) ©1920 by Henry Reuterdahl. Courtesy of the Naval History & Heritage Command.
I needed an object in the foreground to frame Heather's face so I had her hide behind her hand. I like how it turned out.
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ISO: 200 (For the greatest possible image clarity.)
Shutter Speed: 1/80 sec. (I needed it fast enough to make the subject recognizable but slow enough to make the blur obvious.)
Aperture: f/5.0 (The light that was creeping in next to the trees wasn't enough to properly light the subject so I needed an aperture that would let in extra light as needed.)
Editing:
I slightly raised the highlights and contrasts in the image to help further clarify the detailed background while making the blur of the subject a little more obvious.
This photo was taken of some bleeding heart flowers in the UW garden, which satisfies requirement 1, focus on the foreground. For this short, I used a macro Minolta lens at the nearly full aperture (f/2.8) and set to aperture priority mode as it is a manual lens and the max aperture is desirable for achieving the desired shallow DoF. The only post-processing done on this shot was upping the contrast to bring out the colors of both the foreground and background.