Dahlia Garden, Golden Gate Park - 9/16/03	Up to Dahlia Garden
	Photos by Laura Maish and Bill Storage Email us about this page

 

Most of these photos were taken with Canon's odd-looking tilt-shift 90 mm lens. Tilt-shift allows a 35 mm cameral to behave like a view camera. You can tilt and slide the lens with respect to the film plane, providing a thin in-focus region that is not parallel to the back of your camera. This can give a rather other-worldly effect as shown below. For us, flower macro photography is about getting all the right things out of focus. For an online demonstration of how this works, look here. You can also download our Tilt Lens Pocket PC program. The dahlias at Golden Gate Park are products of some very devoted individuals who nurse these exotic varieties. Our photos probably irritate them to no end, since we tend to like photos showing the dahlias when they're beyond their prime, or an out of focus section that is too tiny to even recognize the variety photographed. A couple of our favorite shots came from Bud's trash can after a pruning session. Well, at least we got a break from San Francisco wind.