Name: Sophia Spurgin
Picture title: Crocus Lawn
Category: Plants & Fungi
Nationality: British
Occupation: Retired Teacher

Sophia says:
‘In the spring my front garden is full of crocus blooms. I have taken many photos of them but there is often too much green from the crocus leaves and the grass around them. For this photo I used a blue background to give a softer feel, as if the crocus was floating in a sea of flowers. I used the Lensbaby Velvet 56 lens with a wide aperture to get a very soft focus image and then took another photo at f11 so that the stamen was not too soft. I then combined them in Photoshop.’

Technical information:
Canon 5D Mark IV 
Lensbaby Velvet 56
ISO 100
f/2.8 and f/11
1/2sec
Accessories: Tripod, shutter release, Manfrotto Lumimuse.
Post processing: Basic adjustments in Lightroom and Photoshop to combine two layers to increase the depth of field for the centre of the flower.

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