Poppy Heads
- Thread starter Julian de'Courcy
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Patrick Dziatkiewicz
Member
Beautiful! I love the texture on that! I'm not really into macro and plants but this is still amazing!
Beth Carter
Well-Known Member
wish the head was a tad brighter, my eye keeps popping over to the brighter areas of the background. love all of the bokeh in the background.
Rob MacKillop
Edinburgh Correspondent
The Bokeh is great, but a tad distracting. Beautiful tones, as is usual for you, Julian.
Lesley Jones
Otherwise know as Zooey
I think it's stunning. Yes - perhaps your eye is drawn away a bit, but to me that adds to the general mystery. It's not all in your face and you can take your time looking at all the elements. The colours are amazing 
Julian de'Courcy
Well-Known Member
Thanks all. Beth I know what you,re saying and from that point yes you are correct. The idea was though about light rather than subject. the poppies were incidental in that they were available at the time. I used the 12-50mm kit lens and manually took most of the scene out of focus, which was the only way, with an f stop of 6.3. Lesley I do agree and mostly I enjoy pictures having elements that cover the whole area. Using elements to distract from the dominant right side of a picture and using not only tones but colour to draw subject closer or into the distance using any method possible in an attempt to give an image, some point of interest. Sometimes and mostly that is the picture as a whole. I knew to some extent what I wanted from this image and set it for an accidental element to happen with the brokeh, which I did not really achieve .
