Sunday 26 August 2007

Yeeha! Spring!


The first blossom! I'm not sure whether this is apple blossom, guess I'll have to wait and see.

5 comments:

Wes Messamore said...

Ooh... how did you get the black background?

Anonymous said...

W.E. when the camera's set on "macro" the background comes out black, just so long as there's nothing too close (or too bright) to the back of the subject.
it isn't me being clever. :-)

Wes Messamore said...

So it's just a setting on the camera?

Gecko said...

w.e. it also has to do with distance from the subject. I try and make sure there's not bright sunlight, or patches of light behind it. From memory, this had a wooden fence in shade behind it. I go through an awful lot of batteries getting the right focus and background. Quite a few photographers use a black card behind flowers etc to get this effect, it's a bit of a hassle for me to carry a board round the garden, then you have to make sure it doesn't cut out the light.
Hope this makes a bit more sense:)

Wes Messamore said...

Fascinating. Whenever I'm out of school and have a little more time, I really would like to get into photography.