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<\/a><\/p>\nThis first image was shot at 7am on a Saturday morning.\u00a0 Early morning may be the only time when the garden isn’t swarming with people.\u00a0 To visually compress the distance, I used a 200mm lens.<\/p>\n
This next image is different for several reasons.\u00a0 Of course, this is a closer view.\u00a0 Using a\u00a0100mm macro lens at an aperture of f\/7, the\u00a0depth of field is shallow.\u00a0 I chose to fill the frame with flowers and exclude the surrounding environment.\u00a0 Also note that the light is very different.\u00a0 I shot this image after 6pm with the evening sun directly shining on the flowers from the side.<\/p>\n Getting even closer, the image becomes more abstract.\u00a0 The image is about color and texture; the concept of “tulip” begins to disappear.\u00a0 I specifically chose to use an evergreen shrub for the background, knowing it would fall away to black because this side of the shrub is in shadow.\u00a0 (You can dimly see a green tulip stem rising along the left side of the image.)<\/p>\n Taking a step back, not as close as the previous image, this is more obviously\u00a0a tulip.\u00a0 Still working with the dark background,\u00a0I’ve repositioned myself to achieve back-lighting from the setting sun.<\/p>\n Additionally, I chose to break a couple photography “rules”. Intentionally photographing through a foreground tulip creates a highlight in the bottom left.\u00a0 It was a gamble that I think paid off quite well.\u00a0 A viewer will naturally be drawn to the lower highlight and the upper highlight. After bouncing back and forth a few times, you eventually find the beautiful color and texture in between.\u00a0 I find that my mind dwells on this image longer than the others.<\/p>\n A combination of backlighting, dark background, and close-up abstract shape.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n