Here is one example of one of the hands that I photographed. I used a portrait lens and because I haven't used a portrait lens before I have just had to experiment with it. The autofocus was a bit strange on this camera so I had to shift between auto and manual focus throughout this shoot. I really liked the focused photos in this photo and like the depth given by the unfocused background.

This is my contact sheet with the few images I have selected to edit.

Green circle - An image I would like to further use.

Red cross - An image I would not like to use.

Red F - The image is out of focus.

Red shading - The part of the image I would like to crop out.

Here is my final edited image:

I used adobe lightroom to manipulate this image. I heightened the contrast and clarity of this photo, slightly reduced the exposure and applied a black and white preset. I chose to apply a black and white preset because I believe it draws more attention to the hands' characteristics like the wrinkles and nails.