October 29, 2008

This is another photo from my day at the lily pond. I do so love that place. I was there in the late afternoon so I had a gorgeous waning fall sun to photograph with. I've pretty much gotten into a black and white groove with this blog, but the color shot of this photo is also pretty cool. Still fairly monotone, but with the warmth of the golden setting sun.

Another seed pod and a huge contrast to the lacy, dried pod I posted earlier this month. For those interested in the actual mechanics of capturing this image, this is a double exposure done in camera. The first exposure being sharp focus on the dark portion of the seed pod. There was a pretty good wind, so despite the amount of incoming light with the sun behind the subject, I used a shallow depth of field to bump up the shutter speed all in hopes of eliminating wind movement. The second exposure is taken with the same aperture/shutter speed combo but with the lens defocused to give a halo effect. My D200 has the ability to process this in camera and give me a single image output, which is what you see here.