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New Leaves

CherryPie — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 20:51:15 +0000

New Growth

CherryPie — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 22:44:51 +0000

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 months. I told her to wait and see, there may still be life in them yet…

The conversation prompted me to go and look to see how my garden was fairing. I was pleased to see that there is new growth on the rose that I got on what would have been my Dad’s 80th birthday

It was a good subject for my camera tests. I know my Dad would love the photos, he was after all the inspiration for my interest in photography in the first place.

DoF Experiments

CherryPie — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 00:16:56 +0000

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 all to do with lenses and how they work.

For example the first photo was focused on the front bud and the second photo was focused on the third bud. The two choices create different DoF effects.