Working at Close Range

In this week's chapter I loved the effect of sharp narrow focus with a blurry background achieved using extension tubes and or bellows. The extension tube and bellows allow you to zoom in and magnify small objects with very distinct detail no matter how many times the object size has been increased. The magnification combined with narrow focus allows perfect detail of the subject with blurring of the background, or other objects in the foreground and I think the effect is incredible. This makes wonderful shots of small objects such as flowers and hummingbirds as shown in the book. You have one subject in perfect detail, and the rest of the picture is just color. It makes the picture look half picture half painting. It is just really awesome.