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13 October 2014

# 74

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Blue jade leaf in green phase. With spider web filament.

 

In the early-mid 30s, there was a group of photographers who called themselves "Group f/64." It included many of the extraordinary photographers of that era: Edward Weston, Imogene Cunningham, and Ansel Adams, to name only three. They used very small apertures on their (mostly view) cameras, to get everything in focus.

 

I only went down to f/22 for this image, because I knew there was no possibility of bringing the back portion of the leaf into focus even at f/36, which is the smallest aperture this lens has. And I didn't want to, anyway. What intrigued me this morning was bringing the left edge of the leaf into sharp focus,  and, because focus is after all a "plane," bringing the inside of the lower portion also into focus -- but not the near edge of the lower edge of the leaf.

 

Maybe I can find something red or otherwise brilliant for tomorrow.