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Thu, 04 Sep 2003

Variations on a sunflower

I bought some flowers for our apartment and I decided to go for a few shots, inspired by the numerous photos of sunflowers you can find on the web.

Those pictures are therefore far from being the most original of this kind but it's still an interesting photographic experiment.
I tried to play with a shallow depth of field to show the same object under different aspects, although the position of the subject didn't change compared to the camera:

• I like this one because I played with the manual focus to show only the ends of the petals, leaving the main subject in a blur, bringing a surprising attention to what is usually left almost unseen
• This one is more classical, but I like the way the petals are flying away from the frame, I think it's a very dynamic picture
• For this one, I played with the manual focus again to show only one plane of sharpness. It gives an interesting effect, almost vertigo or as if the flower was burning, as Fred said
• Finally, a shot with a very small aperture the whole flower as sharp