Drop Focus

For part of the systems & processes brief i have to take a photo using the "drop-focus" technique. At first, i was a little confused as to what this was since i couldn't find anything about it online. Andy explained to us that drop focus is - in macro and close-up photography - when you get a band across the image in focus and the rest is blurred, this usually happens when shooting across the subject.. rather than shooting from above, where you would get more of the image in focus. I decided to use some tiny confetti/sequin stars, these things are really small.. and tend to get everywhere! I thought they would be interesting to use, because they are 'sparkly' the out of focus highlights give a bokeh effect.. which looks quite magical! I took these images using extension tubes with a combination of different lengths.

This image is a clump of stars i found which were stuck together, i decided to photograph this on its own on some glittery paper. I think this image looks really nice, and the bokeh effect really adds the the image.

These 3 images were all taken of just the stars, again i feel the bokeh effect really adds to the images. I edited the colours of the images using Adobe Lightroom, and added a slight vignette.