ƒ/5.6 | 1/60 | ISO200
There was a period about three years ago when everyone was obsessing about camera bokeh. I think a good photographer understands that it is not about how shallow a photograph can get, but how well you can layer that depth of field in the photograph. In the above photograph I wanted to focus the viewer’s attention on the drops of rain on the leaves and highlight the red of the plant. In order to achieve this, I opened the lens up a little bit more than was en vogue a few years ago so that the viewer would be disoriented by the blurriness of everything outside of the plant. As you can see, this still allows for the bokeh to shine at the top of the photograph, but still give you, as the viewer, a path for the eye to follow.