Lately, I’ve been posting a lot of articles about flower photography, but I’m not done yet. If the spring roses are already in bloom, I should go check them out. So, during the latter half of Golden Week, I visited the ex. Furukawa Garden in Kita Ward, Tokyo.
Since I’ve visited a few times before and know my way around, this time I decided to focus on image quality and go without a zoom lens, using only SIGMA i-series prime lenses. The equipment I brought was the LUMIX S5 and SIGMA 17mm F4 DG DN, SIGMA 50mm F2 DG DN, and SIGMA 90mm F2.8 DG DN.
My main goal for this trip was to capture photos like this one of “roses and a Western-style mansion.”
White roses by the window.
The ultimate redness stands out against the dark gray stone exterior.
The SIGMA i series lenses deliver excellent resolution in the focused area and soft, smooth bokeh in the out-of-focus area, creating a striking contrast.
By the way, compared to the rose garden in Shibaura I visited recently, the flowers here weren’t blooming as much, so it was quite challenging to find flowers that would complement the mansion. In the end, I was only able to capture the three shots mentioned above as intended.
If I had compromised a bit and focused on simply capturing beautiful flowers without considering the mansion, the garden would have offered a wider range of options, as it features a variety of rose varieties, even though only a portion of them were in bloom.
There’s no end to this, so let’s make this the last one.
In the background of this photo, you can see a Japanese garden spreading out below the rose garden on the hill.
The main focus of this trip was photographing roses, but since we’re here, let’s go down there next time.
