Saturday 11 April 2015

Tulips


Glossy petals in shades of red and pink are quite tricky! And the reduced resolution online doesn't help . . .



And it's not just the lower resolution - something happens when the images are uploaded to Blogger. On the photo below, the low-res version on my own computer looks fine, but after uploading it here, a patch has appeared on the left hand side that undermines the whole picture. It's very frustrating and I've no idea what exactly is going on.




Tuesday 7 April 2015

Compact macro function

In recent posts I've been getting to know the manual controls on my Sony compact camera. One thing I hadn't used was the macro facility, as it was only available as an 'auto' function. I've been trying it out in the past week. Partly it's good, partly it's frustrating. Because it's an auto function I can't control the aperture, so sometimes the depth of field is too shallow for the object I'm trying to photograph. Sometimes it just doesn't detect the item I'm trying to focus on and insists that I want to take a landscape image of the background! So, it's good for opportunistic macro (some examples below), but for the 'real thing' it needs to be the big camera, the tripod and the macro lens.









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