An unreliable memoir

Posts tagged “leaves

Day-Glo

Day-Glo
Something to brighten your day. Now ask me again why Autumn is my favourite season.

iPhone 5s 4.15mm f/2.2 1/120 ISO 64


TFIF

Autumn
What a nice day to spend staring at Excel spreadsheets.
But now it’s Wine o’Clock. TFIF.
I could go on about how the wine-dark colours of the leaves are reflected in the glass.

Or not.

iPhone 5s 4.15mm f/2.2 1/912 ISO 32


Frosty Bamboo

Frosty Bamboo

Dragged off to the shops this morning but I escaped to snap a few quickies in the garden first. Very little time so I used the kit lens on auto settings. This was my favourite shot, slightly preferred to frost on thyme, but I learned a couple of things:

This kit lens is not that sharp (no surprise, manual settings and stopping down may help)

Stay perpendicular to the subject to maximise usable depth of field.

Nikon D5200  ƒ5.6   55 mm  1/125  ISO 320