By Graeme O’Rourke.
Glenmaggie Abstract
By Graeme O’Rourke
Canon 5D Mark IV; Tamron 35-150mm lens; f/2.8-4.0 Di VC OSD @64mm; f/9; 1/25s; ISO 1600; Hand held; No flash
It was wet, cold and miserable at Lake Glenmaggie in Victoria when this photo was captured while sitting in the back seat of a car.
The diagonal band of sharp focus passing through the centre of the photo is where the Plane of Focus was at the time of focusing – which had been locked in by switching to Manual focus whilst being careful not to touch the manual focus ring.
I wanted the tree to be blurred as much as possible whilst having only the central area of the rain drops as sharp as possible.
Don’s response
Photographer Graeme O’Rourke saw a picture where most people wouldn’t. And that’s in large part due to his ability to think photographically.
By consciously managing the plane of focus, he was able to keep a precisely delineated band in which the water droplets were perfectly sharp (indeed, as Graeme observed, if you zoom in on the droplets, you can clearly see the tree’s inverted image).
The result is a moody, memory-like evocation of a moment in time.
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