We had a bit of snow here last night, but by the time I got up and took the dog for his walk, most of it had gone. So instead, I took some pictures in the railway cutting and I like this wintry picture of squishy rosehips.
I hate using this annoying Americanism but that is an awesome shot, really sharp, vivid colours. What aperature was that shot with F1.0? lol
Thank you - I quite like it, too I took the pic with my new VR lens (not bad for 135!) Aperture priority mode at F8, ISO250 and at full zoom (200mm) at 1/30 sec, so the VR came in really handy, as I couldn't have held it steady by hand at that speed. I've also bought Photoshop Elements 7, so I can play with RAW files, which PS7 can't handle. Embarrassingly, I had left the White Balance set at Tungsten from when I was taking some pics in the house, but the beauty of RAW meant that I could take it back to the proper WB of daylight. This is what it looked like with the wrong WB, for comparison
How come the flowers are so sharp & the background so out of focus at F8? was the background far away?
I don't really know! I set it to AP, but then had a bit of difficulty focussing, as the lens was hunting, so wasn't taking that much notice of my settings, just trying to focus. I got the figures for the settings from Elements, which tells me what they are with RAW files. I was quite surprised it was F8, but I think the fact that it's a long lens makes it have such a small depth of field, in addition to the aperture setting. (I'm hopeless at physics!)
