Selective Focus Photography: Garden Serenity, Dogs, and the Sculptures of Alex Ross and Mike Hill

Wolverine mini head bust from 2006 as designed by luminary illustrator Alex Ross and sculpts by Mike Hill, who, earlier in the year, won an Academy Award for Best Makeup & Hairstyling on Guillermo del Toro’s film Frankenstein.

This morning’s impromptu inspiration had me visited our next-door neighbours to photograph their garden, dog, then, returned home to photograph our own dog and a couple of Marvel characters.

The camera I used is a Canon 6D M2 fitted with my favourite low-light 35mm, f/1.4 lens, where I captured with ambient lighting in raw, manual mode at f/1.4 – f/2.0, 1,000 iso – 2,000 iso then processed the images in Adobe Lightroom. I cannot get enough of an image having a tight focus on the subject with a creamy bokeh background.

Garden images include beans, lavender, tomatoes and other plants a plenty.

The neighbour’s dog Lucy, and below our dog Lilah.

Another Ross and Hill head bust creation—The Green Goblin.

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