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Equipment & Techniques => Landscape & Nature Photography => Topic started by: Leszek Piotrowski on May 11, 2018, 05:45:17 pm

Title: Field Horsetail Cone in Spring Morning Light
Post by: Leszek Piotrowski on May 11, 2018, 05:45:17 pm

Field Horsetail ( Equisetum arvense L.) cones are now shedding their spores,... spring is here for sure.

I highly cropped the image to show cone detail.

135mm  - 1/100 sec @ f2 ISO 100

Title: Re: Field Horsetail Cone in Spring Morning Light
Post by: framah on May 12, 2018, 11:39:10 am

As interesting as the plant is, I actually like the background more!! :o

Title: Re: Field Horsetail Cone in Spring Morning Light
Post by: Leszek Piotrowski on May 12, 2018, 06:39:05 pm

Thank you framah--

Yes the bokeh caught my interest when I was doing PP work on that mornings captures, even thou the Horsetail cone was my initial subject.

A lot of the background was cropped away, which I was reluctant to do,  but next time I will be more aware of other "hidden" subjects,... e.g., an abstract as a subject.  I still need to get more experience with the Zeiss 135mm f2 to be more aware of those "hidden" creative potentials.

Thanks for your comment.

Leszek

Title: Re: Field Horsetail Cone in Spring Morning Light
Post by: francois on May 14, 2018, 03:53:30 am

Quote from: framah on May 12, 2018, 11:39:10 am

As interesting as the plant is, I actually like the background more!! :o

My thought exactly, the bokeh is very nice.

Title: Re: Field Horsetail Cone in Spring Morning Light
Post by: muntanela on May 16, 2018, 03:22:54 am

I like very much the correspondences (even in the colors) between the vertical patterns on the stem and those of the background. The break of these correspondences by the cone is also interesting.

Title: Re: Field Horsetail Cone in Spring Morning Light
Post by: framah on May 16, 2018, 11:10:55 am

Ok...

I had to go look it up and now I know what it means:

bokeh
noun
a Japanese term for the subjective aesthetic quality of out-of-focus areas of a photographic image.

That's what i thought. ;D

Title: Re: Field Horsetail Cone in Spring Morning Light
Post by: Leszek Piotrowski on May 31, 2018, 07:14:53 pm

muntanela, Thank you kindly for your comment and viewing the image.