Dan Perovich's Cyberfront Property

Photo365-20091230 – The Force: A Collection, originally uploaded by HokiePerogi.
1/30 sec @ f/2.0, ISO 250, 5.1 mm

I have been working late every night this week trying to finish off a project by the end of the year.  I took a short break for a few minutes tonight to take a picture of a coworker’s cube on my floor.  Just about every day over the past few months I have been walking by this cube taking notice to the miniature Star Wars model collection on display.  Tonight was the first time things fell into alignment to allow me to get my long awaited pictures.

I tried several different techniques to capture an image which showed the complete collection.  Unfortunately, the Leica point and shoot has a large maximum aperture.  Because of this, I was unable to get a deep enough depth of field for all of the models to be in focus.  I decided to change my approach to only capturing a few models and blurring the rest.

In today’s photo, the first model, at the bottom right, is in relatively good focus while the rest of the models blur significantly as the eye follows the line of models up the frame.  As the eye starts to follow the back line of models from right to left, many will recognize the shapes of familiar Star Wars battle planes.  It is my hope that these users will be able to visualize what the rest of the models are which are not as recognizable due to being out of focus.