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Featured in Selective Focus (Response #111)

Featured 804 Days Ago by Judith_Polakoff - - 12 comments

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rValley said 805 days ago:

Am I allowed to say damn?

To late to apologize now.

High 5's from me.

catastrophic said 805 days ago:

beautiful, the focus i understand is the theme but it's kinda distracting how it falls in and out of focus at the top right corner.

Beard said 805 days ago:

I really enjoy the image, but is the fly real?!? Is the DOF manipulated a great deal? If not, how did you get selective focus on two different areas when they seem to be at two different depths? If it is not manipulated by Photoshop, is it perhaps some special sort of lens or filter? I'd really enjoy hearing the backstory.

bslomovic said 805 days ago:

Brilliant! Never seen anything like this.

mpainter said 804 days ago:

Wonderful contrast between the rainbow colors of the fly and the white flowers! I think I might like it even more with the right half cropped off, even though that reduces the selective focus effect a bit.

Judith_Polakoff said 804 days ago:

Beard: The fly and the flower tops are real, and no, the depth of field is not manipulated, but it was entirely accidental! This is cropped from a larger frame, so I was further away than it appears here. I was also sitting on a step above and a bit to the side. The unfocused flower tops in the middle were poking up much closer to the lens than everything else. This effect can be reproduced with a macro lens when you've got objects falling in and out of the focal plane, but as I said, in this case it was entirely accidental. The lens I used is a Vivitar 100mm macro for Nikon.

koknia said 804 days ago:

That is a truly amazing macro shot.

mehdi said 804 days ago:

this is great.

noushin said 803 days ago:

I love the detail and the colors on the fly, the light background makes the fly to stand out really well.

faustina said 801 days ago:

The detail in the fly is so amazing. great photo.

tread said 801 days ago:

Simply magnificient!

mooch said 769 days ago:

Perfect example. Honestly, those things are disgusting and yet you have captured a spectrum of colour that belies that

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