This assignment was 'texture.' I took my camera to my friend's house because she's got a complete cactus garden in her house. For these particular photos, I practiced using my camera's macro mode with manual focus, because automatic couldn't make up its mind on where it wanted to focus. It's just like cars. I prefer manual shift cars because you have more control. Automatics just roar up to the gear's limit until they shift.
I love this perspective. Get LOW. BRAVO!
ReplyDeleteI also love the white spines feeling their way out into the darkness.
There are several "arches" there in the image. The curvature from lower left is nice. THe shadow line on the lower cactus. The curve of the upper body of the cactus. The curve made out by the spines reaching out. Then the blurred curve in the upper right. very nice. The eye can follow that and doesn't even realize that is what they see. It feeds into the dark- light- dark blend that highlights the spines.