I enjoy taking photographs of flowers. Â Sometimes I like to have the entire flower in focus and sometimes I like to have only a portion of the flower in focus. Â These are two shots of the same flower, same place, same time. Â 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. Â 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. Â 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. Â I'm hoping that I will learn a lot. Â 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. Â The only problem I have with the strawberry plants is that we don't have enough of them to get much fruit. Â 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. Â I tried using different apertures, shutter speeds, and distances from the subject. Â 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 …
