For this photo blog, we were challenged to take a photo that represents visual mass, or in other words, you put the all the attention on that one subject in a photo, and you pretty much put a lot of negative space around it.
Because I was inspired by those close up photos that I always see online, I decided that this was a perfect chance for me to attempt it myself. I did some research on macrophotography and I heard that you need the long telephoto lens, with a low ISO, very short shutter speed, and a low f stop. However, I probably did it wrong, because when I got close to the subject, it got very blurry even though I adjusted the focus accordingly.
So this time, I decided to just settle with my 50mm lens. I decided to place the purple flower in my front yard is the center of attention in this photograph. Then I made the f stop really low so that the background would be blurry, and my audience would not look anywhere else other than this close up of the purple flower. Then I went into Adobe Photoshop to slightly darken the flower because it appeared to be too bright. The result was this beautiful close up of a purple flower that is shown above.