A Rose By Any Other Name

Well it's a tea rose to be precise and you can't smell it at all because, you know, it's a photo, but quoting Shakespeare makes me sound clever and stuff. I'm still practicing with my new camera lens. The previous shots were mostly about taking advantage of the low light capability. Here though there was plenty of light and I wanted to work with depth of field.

Once you get down to f1.7 it gets really tricky to get the right bits of the image in focus. I actually misjudged this slightly and the stamen are out of focus, but the petals are nice and sharp so I can live with it. The value of that shallow depth of field is obvious though because it isolates the flower from everything else which fades into a nice blurred background.

Also look at the shutter speed when the lens is this wide open. There's not much risk of camera shake at 1/2500 of a second. This is what they mean when they say a lens is "fast".

f/1.7 - 1/2500 - 25mm - ISO 160

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