Happy Saturday. I hope you have an enjoyable weekend. On my way out-of-town yesterday evening I drove past the local greenhouse and the owner had a lot of flowers on display outside.
There were no customers in the lot an it looked like the business was closed so I did one of my patented “U” turns and went for a look. He had well over 100 flower plants on display and so I set up the macro lens and started shooting.
I shot most of these with the camera set on continuous focus and the lens set at f16 because it was windy and the flowers were almost always moving.
With a setting of f16 I was able to keep most of the flower in focus. Depending on which side of the flower-pot I shot, I was getting shutter speeds of 1/160 of a sec. down to 1/30 of a sec., which the latter was not fast enough to make the image sharp (because of the wind.)
So I decided to set up the macro flash and take lighting conditions out of the equation. I set the camera to manual, shutter speed to 1/125 and the lens at f16. I was very happy with the results after that.
This is the same business that also operates a consignment auction and sells just about anything that you can think of. If you have followed this blog for awhile you will remember the image I took of the metal rooster about a year ago.
I had asked the owner of the business if I could take some images of his yard ornaments he had on display, two of which were colorful metal roosters. I had taken several images of the rooster from different angles and felt someone was very close behind me. When I turned around he was standing right behind me with a very serious look on his face and said “You got a thing for chickens?”
It just cracked me up. So I explained to him that my “thing” was for cameras and the rooster just was something I wanted to capture because of the colors. Okay you would have had to be there and seen the look on his face. 🙂 Priceless.
That’s it for today. Hope to do a lot of shooting today as I have no big projects that have to be completed this weekend. Enjoy your weekend and thank you for stopping by. Be careful.
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