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Quartz crystal and abalone, 2012
Selective color from shallow depth of field means that most of the image will probably be blurred, and this can be turned to an advantage in one special way—with color. There are times when color will definitely enliven an image, and times when it’s less important what those colors actually represent in real life. Here is one case: a macro shot of a small quartz crystal, and colors introduced from something that had nothing to do with it. Being quartz, it is colorless, but it also refracts, so it seemed natural to introduce color in the background. Shooting with a macro lens and fairly wide ...
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