I enjoy taking photographs of flowers. Sometimes I like to have the entire flower in focus and sometimes I like to have only a portion of the flower in focus. These are two shots of the same flower, same place, same time. One I shot at f/4.0 for a shallow depth of field and the …
Day 334 – Rain Abstracts
The weather forecasters were correct . . . the rain started today. I took these from my car at the gym. One is of a tree with some leaves still on it and the other is two different versions of a water slide at the outdoor swimming pool. For all of the photos, I used …
Day 248 – From My Garden
I'm doing my post early today - I'm heading off to the Photoshop convention in Las Vegas for a couple of day. I'm hoping that I will learn a lot. I won't be able to post while I'm there, but will get caught up with my daily posts when I return. These photos were taken …
Day 168 – More Macro from the Garden
I took these photos this morning while there was still some water drops left over from the watering last night. Our strawberry plants are starting to develop the fruit. The only problem I have with the strawberry plants is that we don't have enough of them to get much fruit. We probably will get a …
Day 145 – Red Gerbera Daisies
I'm still practicing with my macro lens and tonight I worked on some red Gerbera Daisies. I tried using different apertures, shutter speeds, and distances from the subject. One thing I have learned is that the macro lens has a very shallow depth of field, even with a small aperture. I wanted to use natural …
Through My Lens 