Serendipity has always played some role in photography, providing opportunity for the prepared camera jockey to click at the decisive moment. Some of my favorite abstracts are accidental or half-hearted shutter trips that are discovered post processing. The digital tools and techniques for manipulating images are endless and encourage experimentation. Is there a picture there, if one just keeps looking?
This is an accidental, extreme out of focus shot of the subject in Flower #1. I liked the sensuous shape, so some play in Lightroom 2.4 followed. I settled on some extreme contrast boost, split toning and curve settings. I stopped fiddling when I saw what looked to me like a fuzzy female breast on the right side of the dark central blob.
Technical: Nikon D700, Micro-Nikkor 105mm f2.8 AF, ISO 200, f/5.6 @ 1/200s, handheld. RAW file processed in Lightroom 2.4.
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