This photo and post were inspired by Sonel who is hosting a weekly black and white photo challenge. This week’s topic is neighborhood. I took this photo at a park that is in my neighborhood:
ISO 100 50mm 0ev f/3.5 1/160
I love that our neighborhood has this green space. I love even more that a lot of people use it. It has playing fields, a playground, benches, a walking path, and a pond. I just think it is healthy for people to spend time outdoors, so it always makes me happy to see so many of my neighbors here.
For this shot, I was thinking that I might want to do a HDR image, so I was using exposure bracketing. It can be tough to get a flower exactly still so I was using a pretty fast shutter speed. I was also using the fast shutter speed to cut out some of the light I was letting in by having my aperture so open at 3.5. I knew I wanted a pretty shallow depth of field though, because I thought the background would distract from the flower if I didn’t. Even though the background is blurred you can see that there is quite a bit there, imagine how distracting it would be if you could see all that detail. I merged the three exposures in Photomatix and then did some sharpening in Photoshop.
I liked this shot well enough to then make a 5×7 card of it and put it for sale on my website.
Do you have any thoughts, comments, or questions about my image? feel free to leave them below.
Cheers!
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