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Creative Garden Photography
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Creative Garden Photography

by Harold Davis
July 2020
Beginner
360 pages
8h
English
Rocky Nook
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Focus and Depth of Field

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Wheels within Wheels—To create this image of the inside of a poppy, I focused very carefully on the center of the poppy and used a wide-open aperture for low depth of field so the rest of the image went pleasantly out of focus. The quality of this lens together with the pinpoint, wide-open focus helped to create a very special bokeh.

Nikon D300, 100mm Zeiss Makro Planar, 1/800 of a second at f/2.0 and ISO 200, hand held.

One of the key creative aspects of photography involves how much of an image is in focus. Generally, the first thing the viewer’s eye goes to in any image is bright colors. The second thing the viewer ...

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