Enter the Nikon
Fresh out of the box, and following direction from my tutor, I've been attempting to get pictures with a decent shallow depth of field, where the subject is in focus, and fore and aft is out of focus. I'll let you be the judge as to how successful I've been:
A whirly bee thing. I had a relatively slow shutter speed to capture the movement of the rotating wing.
One of the hundreds of daffodils in the garden. I made a slight cockup up here, as the petal in the back is in focus, rather than the the trumpet element of the flower, which I was aiming for.
I'm still amazed that this tree is alive. My father and I "transplanted" it from from the front garden to the back garden some years ago. We weren't delicate. I seem to recall bolt cutters, hammers, and chisels being involved in plucking it out of where it was to where is is now. The flowers are pretty though. Later in the summer, the leaves (and stems to an extent) turn a dark purple colour.
Well pleased with the camera. Well pleased. I event don't mind coughing up for image editing software. I've probably rinsed some of these firms enough over the years, so the licencing aspect is almost some kind of atonement for past abuse of trust.
A whirly bee thing. I had a relatively slow shutter speed to capture the movement of the rotating wing.
One of the hundreds of daffodils in the garden. I made a slight cockup up here, as the petal in the back is in focus, rather than the the trumpet element of the flower, which I was aiming for.
I'm still amazed that this tree is alive. My father and I "transplanted" it from from the front garden to the back garden some years ago. We weren't delicate. I seem to recall bolt cutters, hammers, and chisels being involved in plucking it out of where it was to where is is now. The flowers are pretty though. Later in the summer, the leaves (and stems to an extent) turn a dark purple colour.
Well pleased with the camera. Well pleased. I event don't mind coughing up for image editing software. I've probably rinsed some of these firms enough over the years, so the licencing aspect is almost some kind of atonement for past abuse of trust.