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  2. The lens aperture was set to f22 – the smallest available. That said, if the background flowers were in focus, then the main subject would not stand out as much. I could have used a wide angle lens, which would give greater depth of field, but it would be a different picture – which, incidentally, I did during the same shoot. The poppies were a few inches apart – the sunflowers were half a field apart – that makes a big difference to available depth of field, too 😉

  3. “if the background flowers were in focus, then the main subject would not stand out as much.”

    Assuming of course that it is physically possible to achieve this, that would really mess with the viewer’s head!

    Mark Wadsworths last blog post..George Osborne

  4. It would be physically possible with a wide angle lens close to the main bloom in the foreground. There would be some distortion, though. I was shooting at a medium telephoto range for this one, condensing perspective and reducing depth of field.

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