Cherry blossoms bloom on a tree at the other end of my park every year, but I always forget to bring my camera to photograph it until this afternoon.
Aperture | ƒ/4 |
Camera | ILCE-7RM5 |
Focal length | 75mm |
ISO | 100 |
Shutter speed | 1/1250s |
I was there too
Cherry blossoms bloom on a tree at the other end of my park every year, but I always forget to bring my camera to photograph it until this afternoon.
Aperture | ƒ/4 |
Camera | ILCE-7RM5 |
Focal length | 75mm |
ISO | 100 |
Shutter speed | 1/1250s |
Here’s one of my attempts at a mushroom photo, focus stacked from 4 roughly the same images.
This sort of photography is really hard isn’t it? You have to get down really low which is a problem itself if you don’t have a tripod to suit. An extension tube is a requirement as I don’t have a macro lens, and then trying to manually focus on the different parts of the mushroom is a challenge.
The focus assist in my camera really helped there. It shows dancing dots where the image is focused but even at f/14 it wasn’t enough to encompass the entire mushroom from front to back. Tap to zoom paid off a few times as it blows up the image to help focusing.
It was fascinating to see the focus dots move like a wave through the scene as I zoomed in and out. Yes, zooming in and out moved the focus point significantly! Significantly here means a few centimetres. Everything is small scale here.
Aperture | ƒ/14 |
Camera | ILCE-7M3 |
Focal length | 105mm |
ISO | 100 |
Shutter speed | 2.5s |
Aperture | ƒ/22 |
Camera | Canon EOS 6D |
Focal length | 95mm |
ISO | 100 |
Shutter speed | 2s |
Aperture | ƒ/20 |
Camera | Canon EOS 6D |
Focal length | 50mm |
ISO | 12800 |
Shutter speed | 1/25s |
A ladybird in the grass of my back garden.
Taken with my Panasonic FZ5. Almost run out of pre-prepared images. I’ll need to fire up the GIMP this weekend.
Aperture | ƒ/4 |
Camera | DMC-FZ5 |
Focal length | 6mm |
ISO | 80 |
Shutter speed | 1/400s |