Are you ready for a change? Yes, we can! Ok, leav­ing shapes now.

This was a photo out of a series that I shot last year for the front cover of the “Spoke”, the stu­dent magazine here. And, guess what, one photo actu­ally made it :-) This one here, how­ever, was obvi­ously not meant for that series (front cover pho­tos are usu­ally in por­trait format…); rather, I took it for the fun of using my fisheye lens, that I had just got­ten a few days earlier.

Although it is a manual focus lens built like a World War II tank (it’s made in Minsk, in a plant that also man­u­fac­tures stuff for the Rus­sian space pro­gram (!) and the Mil­it­ary), it deliv­ers pretty stun­ning res­ults — con­sid­er­ing it only costs 4x as little as the “offi­cial” Min­olta /​Sony Lens.

In terms of shoot­ing this, I got really close to the daf­fodils (20cm close!) and just shot a burst of pho­tos — it was quite windy that day and the flowers were mov­ing back and forth, in and out of focus. Also, I had put a large white reflector on the ground as close as pos­sible to the flowers to bounce back some light from below and reduce the harsh shad­ows a bit (think “fill light”). Steffi loves this shot, and so do I :-)