Details of details

So I have been noticing in my macro, (close-up), images in particular, some interesting artefacts occurring. The circles you can see in the image above is called bokeh. The intersting colouring around this bokeh is called chromatic aberration. Both these effects are caused by the lens of the camera when it is performing under extreme conditions.

Sometimes these effects are wanted. Photographers pay a small fortune for lenses that give bokeh. They will also try to eradicate chromatic aberration in post-production.

I quite like the way they interact to give an abstract effect to the image.

Here is a detail from a photo I took of the surface of a pond. The reflective/refractive qualities give another level of abstraction. I particularly like the reflections of the surface tension arund the cluster of leaves, top right.

I might make another portfolio section called Abstracts for some of these images.