Poppy

I visited Ryton Gardens yesterday with the sole intention of taking photos (and buying some loose leaf tea).  Needless to say I took a lot of photos, many of which have been consigned to the trash bin.

However, this is one of my two favourites that I took, I will put the other in a another post this week.

The first thing to catch my eye was the light on the petals.  It was a bright sunny day, so not immediately one for taking great photos.  I like poppies, just because they are so bright and in your face as I think this one shows.  I also like the subtlety of the background which is nicely blurred even though it was such a bright day (I kept the aperture smaller by reducing to ISO100).

The only thing I have done to the picture in Lightroom is put it in a square crop which I think works well with such a simple photograph.

I obviously had my macro lens affixed, with the settings on shutter priority to stop me getting carried away and losing photos to camera shake, so 1/160secs at f/8.0 (handheld as would be expected).