Achieving focus is always a bit of an adventure for me
maintaining it is impossible
Okay so, back to photography--not sure if this works as an example,
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I was going for the wild glowing colors and the veins in the standards. 100mm, f/5.6, at twilight
I decided that the first is a better picture overall because the background was more homogeneous and further away from the subject so it kind of became irrelevant. In the second, I'm quite fond of the perspective on the iris and the glow and the veins, but, the other irises and leaves in the background, although blurred, are still unpleasant, blobby-spiky distractors. They aren't quite close enough to be part of the subject as a group shot and they are too close to be a decent background.
With the shorter focal length of a 100mm lens, backgrounds don't stack and fade away quite like they do with a longer focal length. I have discovered with repeated shots like the second one, that it really helps if I can find an angle of 'isolation'. Really hard to do with everything all jammed together in my gardens though, and limited space for me to get access.
