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The highlight of this photo is not the flower, but the out-of-focus area around the subject. This photo was made with a 73 year-old Leica lens. You may notice the swirl in the background. This is a natural; effect from the lens and not part of processing.
The highlight of this photo is not the flower, but the out-of-focus area around the subject. This photo was made with a 73 year-old Leica lens. You may notice the swirl in the background. This is a natural; effect from the lens and not part of processing.
Judy bought me this lens as a gift. It is really spectacular. Great style, 50mm and I put a matching silver hood on it in the Leica genre.
The old manual lens has a large aperture, f1.5 that also helps to create good out-of-focus elements, good catchlights in people's eyes and pleasing background highlights. Lens experts call the feature Bokah, or the out-of-focus art of a photo.
I think I could use that swirly Bokeh to take good photos of people, but I don't have any examples of that yet.
I also wanted to display this photo because the subject is only a small part and there is a majority of the space devoted to the background. I notice that often photos are cropping down to only the subject. Additionally, this photo's background does not really provide the viewer with anything that can give scale or reference to the subject.
What do you see?
Photo by Tim Wheat.
The above photo is not the 73 year-old Leica. This lens is a Carl Zeiss Tessar, made is Jena, Germany nearly one-hundred years ago. The lens is encased in the shutter that was made in Dresden and is also an incredible bit of workmanship. Originally it was mounted on a bellows camera. To make it work on my SONY, I have mounted it on a Leica bellows and adapted it to the SONY e-mount.
