Furthur explorations in the world of macro. The object in the image should be pretty easy to guess, right? If you look closely you might just make out my tripod and me! And I love the bokeh of this lens. For those who do not know, bokeh (from Japanese, pronounced ‘boh-keh’) is the rendering of out of focus areas in a photo by the lens. For example, in this photo it is the stuff behind the object. This is a simplistic way of putting things but the smoother the bokeh the better the photo looks. Someone in a review for this lens had commented that the bokeh it gave was like melted cheese…I concur!

I had decided to enter this week’s Dyxum Photo C)and looking to enter another photo I played around with the original color photo of this. I liked the end result so much that I decided to post it here as well as enter it into the contest!

As the exif data suggests this is from a little while back. I haven’t shot anything over this weekend so I raided the archives and came up with this! There is something about the way he is looking at something, equal parts melancholia and plain curiosity that caught my eye.

On a slightly technical note I thought of cropping out the leg peeping into the shot on the left but in the end decided to leave it as the resultant crop was looking a bit abrupt.

The last one, for now, from the macro studies I tried. Proper exposure is something I’ve to learn to do well.

I know that the focus is not spot on in this but I liked the delicate tracery of the veins so I decided to put it up.

The next few shots will be some macro work I tried with some leaves I picked from my garden and the newly acquired macro lens I was talking about yesterday. I’m in love with the wonderful world of macro now!

This image was actually a complete mistake. I was playing around with my newly acquired Minolta 100mm Macro lens when I inadvertently pushed the shutter release. As I was inside my house, in low light conditions the shutter was open for all of 30 seconds! I naturally thought the image would be one hell of a stinker but to my surprise I liked the result. So here it is. In case you are wondering what the blurred object is, it is the inner side of my Minolta 50mm prime lens! (A small corner on the left side of the photo was cropped out).

This was taken at the same place and at the same time as the one put up yesterday and yet this is almost exactly a mirror image of yesterday’s photo. Where yesterday’s image is peaceful, idyllic and beautiful this one is dark, foreboding and ominous. Can’t resist making a cheesy comment here, it is like good and bad, facing off each other. This scene was towards the north while yesterday’s was in the western part of the sky if I remember correctly.

Fell in love with the rich green of the meadow and its contrast to the blue of the sky. It would have been even better if I had been carrying a proper wide angle lens for this.

Yesterday, I finally got a chance to try a few night shots on the street with my Dynax 5D. This is one of the better ones. You will have to believe me when I say that those streaks of color in the foreground represent a passing car! (The top 1/4th of the image was cropped out to eliminate an over-exposed light source).