South Shields Daily Pictures
Buddies
Posted by Curly (South Shields, United Kingdom) on 18 May 2012 in Plant & Nature and Portfolio.
Part of a series of pictures where I have utilised the Orton effect, this macro was shot in a hedgerow near my daughter's school in South Shields.
The original technique invented by Michael Orton was to overlay two or more images of an identical scene with very different exposures on slide film. One image is sharply focused and the others are very out of focus. Orton has also experimented with similar techniques, substituting one of the images in the composition for one of a different subject, such as a texture layer, or combining a multi-colored image and a monotone one.
Photography enthusiasts have embraced the technique and used photo editing programs to replicate it. Some have modified the technique to selectively apply the technique, producing images that have regions of crisp focus and high detail and regions of intense blurriness.
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@gerard1948: Some new buds in a hedge.
@grouser: Yeah, some kind, but don't ask me what sort of plant :-)
Pentax K100D
1/125 second
ISO 800
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south-shields
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orton
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