Godzilla plant!:
This photo took about 25 minutes
to set up. (I actually took about 10 shots and this is the only one
worth keeping.) This perspective effect was achieved
using a short lens in extension--a
technique I learned from Makoto Honda-San. This was my first attempt
at the technique, and it suffers both from inexperience and from my
lack of proper equipment--while my shortest lens is a 24 mm,
a fish-eye would result
in a deeper depth of field. I have a few
old bills to pay for before I get that lens!
By the way, I did not harm the plant in taking this photo--the camera
lens was right at the rhizome, shooting upwards. The diffuser was
used, but in a modified way so the background stayed natural. A very
tricky shot.
