Sometimes when I am watching TV, and my hockey team is losing, I get frustrated, and go get my camera and start to fiddle about with it, while watching the game out of the corner of my eye. This little image is the result of such a situation, and it was taken with a 50mm f1.4 lens, wide open with the flash bounced off of the ceiling. This gives a very shallow dept of focus, as well as very flat lighting effects. When it is enlarged, you can notice that the only sharp part is the center of the red Gerbera Daisy, and the sharpness starts to fall off from there. This lens was bought a while back, and I had not used it much in the meanwhile due to situations beyond my control. When it is mounted on my crop sensor camera, it has the effect of being a 75mm, f1.4 lens, which also makes it rather nice for portraiture as well. While this image is no award winner, I still enjoy it for it's simplicity and mix of colours, and also for the fact that I did not have to do any arrangement of the scene, just record what happened to be there. Cheers!!
