Observations – Page 4 – Explorations In Photography

Red Berry Bokeh: What To Focus On

Automatic focusing systems, such as those found on digital cameras and smartphones, have trouble producing the bokeh effect.

Taking a photograph has been described as “the capture of a moment in time”, but it is much more than that.

A photographer soon learns that his own visual focus is far different than the actual photographic focus on the film.

What Ansel Adams valued in his photos of the wilderness, he said, was “a mystique: a valid, intangible, non-materialistic experience.”

With this image I was consciously striving for a photograph that resembled something my talented younger brother would have painted.