Archive for the tag 'Bokeh'

A Bokeh experiment…

14 Comments CherryPie on Apr 3rd 2012

My Mum mentioned recently that quite a few plants in her garden had not made it through the particularly cold winter. She was especially sad that the ones my Dad had bought that unsuspectingly (several weeks after the order) arrived on the day of his funeral seem not to have made it through the winter [...]

14 Comments CherryPie on Mar 9th 2011

DoF = Depth of Field.
The above article is a little confusing as are the other internet articles on the subject.  In layman’s terms DoF means that when you have focused on the subject of your photograph the camera settings you choose determine how much of the foreground and background is in focus too. It is [...]

14 Comments CherryPie on Mar 8th 2011

It was lovely to see the sun come out this afternoon, it lightened my spirit. My household chores were done so it was an ideal opportunity for me to test my new camera out in the garden.
When I visited Wenlock Priory recently I tried the ‘Aperture Priority’ setting and struggled with it, despite having [...]

6 Comments CherryPie on Mar 6th 2011

When I looked out onto the patio a couple of days ago I noticed that the rose I bought earlier in the year had unexpectedly produced some more buds.  I thought it had finished flowering for the year some time ago so it was a pleasant surprise and it gave the ideal opportunity for experimenting [...]

12 Comments CherryPie on Sep 18th 2010