ISO 100 50mm 0ev f/2.8 1/125
This coneflower has had my attention for the last few days. Today I decided to shoot it in black and white. Actually the original image is in color. I used my Canon 50D with a 50mm lens to get this shot. I also used my tripod. There was a slight breeze, so I thought the tripod would help with any movement. When taking a picture like this I am often thinking about depth of field. What should be in focus and what would I like to see blurred. I settled on an f-stop of 2.8 because I decided I liked the petals in focus but not the stem. I tried f/1.8 but the petals were to out of focus for my liking. At f/7.1 the stem and some of the ground were in focus which ended up not being a very pretty picture.
I edited this photo in Photoshop. I converted it to black and white using a red filter setting. In addition to cropping, I also changed the contrast.
From there, I cropped it a bit differently to create a 5×7 card to put on my website.
This post was written in response to a black and white photo challenge that is hosted by Sonel, and I would like to thank her for the inspiration for creating this photo.
Thoughts? Comments? feel free to leave them below.
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