After yesterday's rear shock absorbers replacement, I took the car to another garage for servicing and registration check-up. After those expenses were done, I was finally able to get the car's registration renewed. It's an old 2004 Honda Odyssey, so the parts are rather dear in this country. Anyway, it's another day like the others but on my way back home I did a little pause by the front yard to take some photos of our Camelias.
As usual, I've taken the photographs on this post with an iPhone 8 Plus and used SnapSeed iOS app to edit it with things like brightness, color saturation, cropping etc...
When we bought our house, there already was a lot of trees and plants. The Camelias were one of them and there was a large one by the front yard in front of the garage.
I noticed two flowers about a week ago and today more were blooming. They are beautiful, it is such a pleasant view to come home to this wall of flowers.
Mrs Bee also agrees with me and she was buzzing around from flower to flower.
Gathering some pollens on her legs pollinating the flowers and contribute to the natural propagation of plants.
My iPhone is not color calibrated (I don't even know if you can do that) so color shades will change from one photo to another depending on the conditions.
But it is still a great photography tool to create some decent photographs. I took these photos using the Portrait mode of the iPhone using either Natural Light or Contour Light. The Portrait mode uses the iPhone 8 Plus two front-facing cameras in order to create that blurry background called Bokeh.
The Bokeh is the result of what we call depth-of-field and is one technique used to isolate the main subject. If you look at the top photograph of the wall of flowers. Everything is in focus, everything is sharp. It's OK in that photograph because it's about showing you the wall of flowers but still, it is a busy image with no particular point to focus on. But if you look at the last photograph below, you can see that the background is blurred, this makes the main subjects (the two flowers) stand out and capture your attention. The background is still present to give you a little bit of context but it is not distracting from the subjects.
I always feel happy seeing these flowers. They don't last very long and will fall on the ground covering it with their lovely color.
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