Individual | Lone | Isolated
I must admit to loving spring at the moment. I came home from my walk this morning and looked at all the newly budding plants and shrubs around the yard. Of course that meant I needed to get the camera out to take photos. Because Steve is at work, there was no urgency to get back into doing some planting straight after breakfast so I had a lovely time taking some macro shots.
The orange hibiscus I planted recently have been flowering really well, and I noticed this flower just starting to open up. Usually they are fully open a bit earlier in the day but this one was still in the process of unfolding, while the others were already fully opened.
Along with the prompt of Single, the other aspect of the prompt was about focal planes. This is from the daily email:
Subjects on different focal planes is a key step to blurring the background. If you imagine slicing a photo into different layers as they meet the “front” of the image, you can imagine focal planes. A slight turn of a head puts one eye on a different plane than the other, causing it to be out of focus.
You can see how the focal plane in these photos is really quite narrow with only the small section in the front of the image in focus. In these shots the tips or edges of the petals and the top of the stamen are in focus with the rest of the image becoming increasingly more blurred into the background.
I love all the delicate drops of dew remaining on the edges of the flower. They don't take long to go once the sun warms up the day.