01 April 2017

Foliage Closeup in Chadron, Nebraska, April 1, 2017

Foliage closeup in Chadron, Nebraska, April 2017. (Photo by Daniel Binkard)
When it comes to playing with blurred backgrounds, foliage can drive you crazy. How much of that weed is parallel to the sensor plane? When will the wind die down? Is anything truly in focus? But this backlighting was too fun to pass up, and I even got something halfway interesting. Often when I'm working with closeups, I want to get closer, and closer, and then crop in. But that's not always the best way to go. How can you arrange your out-of-focus elements in the background to support the in-focus foreground? This isn't quite there, but it's an idea.