Figure 1 – Wonder of Childhood, Concord, MA. (c) DE Wolf 2014.

When you are doing a portrait there is a tendency to put the foreground in focus and to let the background be out of focus.  The opposite, where the foreground is out of focus but the background in focus can also be expressive and sometimes it actually works best.  Today I decided to experiment with that option.  I was on the Old North Bridge in Concord Massachusetts when my eye caught this little boy in a straw hat with a blue band excitedly watching the kayakers below.  He knelt down to watch the boats approach, and I grabbed the moment.  Using spot metering I had the boat in focus but the boy, back to the camera, just out of focus.  The picture remains about the boy.  I entitle the image “Wonder of Childhood,” because I can remember way back when…

Canon T2i with EF70-200mm f/4L USM lens at 75 mm, ISO 400, Aperture Priority AE, 1/800 sec at F/8.0.