Dan Perovich's Cyberfront Property

Here’s one for all those wine lovers out there. Lake Anna Winery was on the list of places visited this Memorial Day Weekend.  My group stopped by for a few hours to do some wine tasting and purchase a few bottles.  Unfortunately, they had nothing new since last year’s visit and my favorite limited-run had long sold out.  But, we did purchase a few bottles and sat out back shooting the breeze, enjoying the sights and sipping the good stuff.

In this picture I was trying to achieve a few objectives I have read about across the web.  The first objective was DOF.  I wanted to blur the background a decent amount without entirely removing all the details.  I wanted the viewer to still see the dimensions of this grape field.  Secondly, I tried to have the dominent straight line in the photo travel into the corner of the frame.  However, my favorite aspect in this photo is the lack of need for words.  The MERLOT sign on the fence post says it all.  This was one of a kind at this vineyard.  I didn’t see any other fields labeled in such a way.  Maybe they only grow Merlot grapes?  I should have listened closer during last year’s tour.

The one thing I would have liked to capture better on this picture is the focus of the bottom left vine.  Actually, I would have like for it to be a bit more out of focus.  A Lensbaby Composer surely would have worked in this situation to accomplish this goal.  But for now, that bit of gear still sits on my wish list.  There is probably a post processing technique I could use as well, but I’ll have to save that challenge for another time.  I have plenty of backlogged photo projects to bring up to date first.