Fiori (Flowers)

Flowers

I Fiori (Flowers in Italian)

Shot with a Canon EOS 50D (w/ 17-55 f2.8 IS USM lens)

  • Shot on Aperture priority
  • Focal Length: 17mm (35mm equivalent: 27mm)
  • Aperture: f2.8
  • Exposure: 1/400s
  • ISO 200

Shot this image in Siracusa, Sicily, which is where I’m travelling over this weekend. It is terribly windy and mostly over-cast, but this shot was taken in one of the few times I had good weather.

I got in, up, close and personal with the flowers at a stall at the market – set the aperture at its widest and let the shallow depth of field do its job of blurring out the rest. I’m not a big fan of floral shots but I loved this when I saw it and could not resist showing it off. I have to leave most of my other shots on standby for a few stories I want to write about Sicily.

(#70 of 366 X 2012 project)