Mind your Macro
· Wednesday February 25, 2009
I’m always impressed by people who blog frequently. How do they find the time?? Things are extremely busy here at the moment… I’m writing up some results from my thesis as a journal paper, and weekend trippage seems to eat up much of my free time.
The weekend before last I went to Snowdonia National Park up in Northern Wales with the walking club. There were some nice photo-ops, but it’s a much more involved post so I will save it for later… (regular readers know I tend to put things off and never get around to actually making blog posts on them, but I do put the pics up anyway, haha)
This past weekend, I was again out with the walking club, but just out into the Hampshire countryside near Micheldever. The weather was stunning, and the early spring flowers are starting to come out!
I have to say, I don’t much care for the bokeh of the Pentax 35mm Macro Ltd. when there are harsh variations in the background. But this problem seems to disappear completely when taking macro photos, presumably due to the tiny depth-of-field.
Snowdrop
The bright spots in the snowdrop photo’s bokeh show some mild polyhedral qualities, but they’re still fairly unobtrusive, aesthetically speaking.
The bokeh in the next photo I find totally lush and delicious. The out-of-focus areas seem to actually add to the dimensionality of the image, though of course this is helped by the fact that there are no harsh transition from bright to dark.
Fleur
I am slightly embarrassed to admit the latter photo caused my friend Dave and I a bit of hassle. This was the second time I’ve gotten separated from the walking group as a direct result of my photographic pursuits (the first time we were in the town of Bath… I had to phone several people in the group before I figured out where they’d disappeared off to!), though I’d rather not make a habit of it. And on top of that, in our haste to find the group, we strayed into a somewhat annoyed homeowner’s garden in the process!! In any case, all’s well that ends well…
This weekend, Dave and I are taking a long weekend to go visit some other hillwalkers in Scotland! Unfortunately for us, our friends are much more hardcore than either of us, so hopefully we’ll be able to keep up on the munros (Scottish for ‘mountain’)... and perhaps even take a few photos now and then =)
— Emery Ku
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