Lens 70-210mm at 80mm: Iso 400 f8 at 1/160th
I took many photographs of this wisteria in Normandy, France at the end of April. The bush was covered in flowers but it was not easy to select a frame with visual order and interest. In this photograph, it was the criss-crossing branches near the base of the old trunk that attracted my attention.
In the original photograph, I had included more bunches of flowers outside the left hand side and above the top of the frame now remaining. I cropped these out in order to accentuate the diagonal branches.
Mid-tones predominate in the picture and overcast skies mean that the shadows are too faint to reveal very much form or texture of the plant. It would have been interesting to have taken to the same subject in low-angled sunlight.
Image 14: Young plants
Lens 18-70mm at 18mm: Iso 320 f8 at 1/90th
I photographed this tray of plants in a greenhouse at Loseley House whilst sheltering from the rain.
I set the lens on wide angle and chose a viewpoint slightly above the corner of the seed tray just outside the minimum focussing distance. The wide angle perspective distorts the shape of the box in the foreground to a more acute angle. It also accentuates the converging lines of the young plants towards to back of the box.
The square frame arose from rotation and cropping of the original horizontal frame.
Image 15: Stripes
Lens 18-70mm at 38mm: Iso 400 f8 at 1/80th
I saw this plant in the greenhouse at RHS Wisley and hoped that the geometric form and leaf stripes of this plant would come out well in black and white. I chose this viewpoint in order to place the upper leaves on a diagonal from left to right, at the same time placing some of the lower leaves pointing towards the bottom left and upper right of the frame. In the original photograph, I included the full length of the diagonal upper leaves in the frame. I decided that a closer crop was more effective when working on the images last week.
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