On what will probably be my next to last poppy shot I decided to position the camera so that a poppy head was filtered by a foreground poppy petal.
The long lens (500mm Tamron) has thrown the front petal totally out of focus resulting in a colour cast over the entire photo but no detail. So the background focused poppy head is sharp with a colour wash over the top.
Cokin used to sell a filter that had a colour effect similar to this so I’m pleased with the natural (free) result.
Raindrops on the poppy petals today. I’ll soon have exhausted the poppy patch by which time the petals will have all fallen off. Next I’m looking forward to a shot of the skeleton poppy head. That’s a few weeks away.
I’m making the most of the poppy explosion in the garden, and the rain with this shot.
A poppy petal fell off, so I placed it on the garden table and framed up tightly using the 100mm macro on a Pentax K5.
A close up abstract of a poppy petal…such large and delicate things – they don’t stand a chance in the wind and rain.
