A friend gave me a bromeliad pup a few years ago. It has grown, blossomed and created more pups. I keep them in pots in the garden under trees to give them mid-day shade. One has created an efflorescence, so I brought it into the lanai and posed it for a few photos. I used a technique called focus bracketing. I put the camera on a tripod, waited for the breeze to die down, and took about five shots with each one focusing farther away. I experimented with how much change to make on each shot, to keep the background out of focus. Then I ran them through a Photoshop program to stack and mask them based on what is in focus and make a composite. It increases the depth of field, which is especially helpful on closeups. They remind me of feather dusters and fireworks.
