Dried Fern
Sunday, October 21st, 2007
Warren, Connecticut. Our ferns have been drying out and turning for a while now but today they seem to be at just the right state of translucency for the backlight of the sun to make them glow.
Note: I rented a Canon EF 180mm f/3.5 L Macro to test out. I’m liking it quite a lot actually although this shot is not a good example of what makes it shine: color and incredible bokeh coupled with great compression from the longer focal length.
Another view of the same image.
Richard, this is one of the most interesting images of a dry fern that I’ve seen in a long time. It’s a beauty.
Glad you like it Gary, I decided to flatten it like the leaves I’ve been doing and treat it less as a 3D object and more as a flat pattern. If the wind hadn’t been blowing I’d have shot it in place with the 180 macro stopped way down and gotten more interesting bokeh outside. Wind, a macro photographer’s worst enemy.