Glenmaggie Abstract [Explored] - a photo on Flickriver

            It was wet, cold and miserable at Lake Glenmaggie in Victoria, Australia when this photo was captured whilst sitting in the back seat of a car.

The photo shows a section of foreshore, water, a tree which is growing in the water about 30-metres from the shore, the other side of the lake and a grey overcast and featureless sky.

Some may question why the rain drops that are sharp are those in the centre of the photo and why are they in a band that crosses the centre of the photo diagonally from the top to the bottom.

The reason for this is the Plane of Focus that I used, more often referred to as the Focal Plane.

If you were to cut a circular piece of cardboard with a diameter greater than that of the end of your lens and on this cardboard mark the points of the compass N, S, E and W. Then place the cardboard flat against the end of your lens, the cardboard represents the Plane of Focus, thus wherever you point your lens and if you were to focus at that point, then the Plane of Focus at the time of focusing extends from N to S to E and W and all points of the compass in-between out to infinity. 

This is now where the Focal Plane comes in – the width of the Focal Plane depends on how far the focus point is from the camera and the f-stop being used, and this is known as the Depth of Field.

As I mentioned, I was sitting in the back seat, and I focused on the area where the window glass meets the B pillar of the car. I then switched from Auto focus to Manual focus to lock in this focus point, this Plane of Focus, and being closely focused the Depth of Field was very shallow despite using f/9. 
I then rotated my camera thru 90 degrees to frame the tree and take the photo and the diagonal band of sharp focus passing thru the centre of the photo is where the Plane of Focus was at the time of focusing which had been locked in by switching to Manual focus, being careful not to touch the manual focus ring.

This capture was taken for maximum effect as I wanted the tree to be blurred as much as possible whilst having only the central area of the rain drops as sharp as possible.

If you were to place your cursor on this photo and Left click, you will see an inverted image of the scene in each of the raindrops, even in the out of focus raindrops assuming they weren't blurred.

Taken on: August 13, 2022

Tags:

Lake Glenmaggie

abstract

tree

lake

water

foreshore

Plane of Focus

grey sky

Focus Plane

Inverted image in raindrops

raindrops on window glass

Victoria

Australia

East Gippsland

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Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark IV, f/9.0, 1/25 sec, 64mm, ISO 1600 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon EOS 5D Mark IV
Lens:	TAMRON 35-150mm F/2.8-4.0 Di VC OSD A043
Aperture:	f/9.0
Exposure Time:	0.04 sec (1/25)
Focal Length:	64mm
ISO:	1600
Exposure Bias:	+1/3 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Aperture-priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 6.0 (Windows)
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