It is amazing to be able to find such a pretty specimen in the middle of an area somewhat barren of bright coloured flowers, but if you look closely, about a water pan, you are in for a surprise. This image was taken in May at a pan in Mana Pools. The flower is actually quite tiny. Bart Wursten kindly identifies this plant as a species from the small aquatic family Menyanthaceae being Nymphoides either forbesiana (probably) or thunbergiana.
(Canon EOS 7D / EF-S60mm f/2.8 Macro; 1/15 sec; f/8; ISO 320; 60mm)
Picture ©2015 Andrew Field – Simply Wild Photography
Digital Photography Terms
Diffraction is an optical effect and the scattering of light caused by deflection usually at the edges of an opaque object which may be the origin of a slight fizziness in an image, particularly when narrow apertures are used. This may limit the total resolution of the image, no matter the megapixels of the camera.
“I think the equipment you use has a real, visible influence on the character of your photography. You’re going to work differently, and make different kinds of pictures, if you have to set up a view camera on a tripod than if you’re Lee Friedlander with handheld 35 mm rangefinder. But fundamentally, vision is not about which camera or how many megapixels you have, it’s about what you find important. It’s all about ideas.”
– Keith Carter