23 August 2019

Flowers and Yucca in the Nebraska National Forest, August 23, 2019

Sunflower double exposure at the Black Hills Overlook in the Nebraska National Forest, August 2019. (Photo by Daniel Binkard)

This is a double exposure with a focus shift. One frame is focused on the flowers, the other on the yucca leaves. The unfocused areas in each frame create haloes of color and tone around the sharper elements. I like the sense of sharp and unsharp this technique brings. There are little details, like the stem of the foreground flower, that draw the eye as you try to make sense of what’s in the scene.