My friend Ken called me the other night and said he was stopping by a
park on the way home from work and would I like to join him for some
picture taking. Since he was a major motivator in getting me to make
the switch from the Coolpix 3200 to a digital SLR, I decided to join
him before I headed out to a meeting of the Ann Arbor Camera Club.
In the 5 months I have had this camera I have taken over 20 percent the number of pictures I did in about 8 years with my old camera. That is, I've taken over 2000 pics in 5 months. In the 8 years I was using my point and shoot camera, Nikon Coolpix 3200, I've shot 9156 images.
A big part of of the reason is that I am able to do things like this. One of my big loves is macro and closeup photography. With my point and shoot camera, I was unable to get get images like this. I've taken a couple of closeups with the camera before, but here I was able to take some time and really work with the lens. Next time, I'm going to use a tripod.
Thistle
A yellow flower of some kind. I guess I'm kind of surprised that there are still flowers in bloom this late in the season.
An unknown purple flower.
A thistle still in bloom.
A thistle with a spider web.
Purple Loosestrife. I think I would have liked this better if I had more detail on the flower.
The low sun was bringing some amazing detail in the leaves.
Sunlit leaves.
Wild grape.
Some small berries.
While Ken was taking a picture of some Queen Anne's Lace, I noticed this dandelion on the ground. I decided to see what I could do with it.
I zoomed in a little closer. I wasn't getting the detail I wanted.
Finally, I switched to my macro lens. I was able to get more detail, but I still wasn't getting what I wanted.
Here, I got most of what I was aiming for. Only part of the flower was lit by the sun which was pretty low by this point. I was hoping to have enough depth of field to get the whole flower in focus, but I was in a very awkward position and was shooting with out a tripod. There was also an intermittent breeze. This meant that I had a bit of problem keeping it in focus. Next time, I'll remember that I have a small tripod in my camera bag.
The Queen Anne's Lace. I didn't get the look I was hoping for.
Another shot with a bit more depth of field. This closer to what I was hoping for, but not exactly it. Its a bit tough to gauge fine detail on the LED screen. The flower was dancing around in the wind and moved it a bit off center. I'll have to work on this a bit more.
With this post I am now caught up with my photo excursions.
Sunday, October 7, 2012
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I see the pictures you took of that dandelion with the Macro lens and I see that I need to get one of those one of these days.
ReplyDeleteNice shots all around though....
When shooting with my FE2 I used that lens almost exclusively. I'd guess that 99%+ of the pictures I took over the years were with that lens. It is fantastic and really inexpensive.
DeleteOf course, if macro work isn't your goal, then you probably don't need to get one. I wouldn't want to be close enough to a freighter for that lens to make a difference.
I do like taking pictures of my models though.
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