The most majestic tree in my favourite woodland..
Of course I have taken very many photos of the Horse Chestnut trees in my local woodland and have in the past documented shots of the beautiful blooms to the fruit bearing stage and the emergence of the conkers. I was still using the 135mm 1.8 Samyang Auto lens when taking this shot which is of course renowned as a portrait lens. I used this wide open at 1.8 and quite frankly amazed at the amount of detail I got, including those tiny stamens that always put me in mind of hundreds of tiny dancing feet. i can tell you that this photo had no sharpening either in camera or in photoshop. The only single thing I did was a small boost to the reds (which if you are familiar with photoshop hue and saturation actually gave a small boost to the oof light green sunlit background and to the blue of the tiny amount of blue sky in the bokeh. I could have course got a that bloom as well or maybe even better come to that if it was focus stacked but no chance on this windy day. Hand held with minimal adjustment with the manual focus that is available for critical focus..
We got back late yesterday and I was very slightly better for the rest. When we went to the beach the first day I was desperately upset to need Jonathans help back to the promenade. I rested a day and a half and managed a walk along the beach without incident on Monday so maybe I just need to pace myself...I hope to catch up as soon as I can. I must say i remain disgusted that our campsite advertises WiFi which is not strictly true. You get something called camping connect with a strong warning that it is insecure..apart from that, because i was willing to try it just to keep up on Flickr of an evening but just black holes for minutes at a time where the photos' should be so regretfully had to give up..Very annoying because I had the time on my hands to do so :(
I am still slow to catch up as today the day we fetch Leo from school and have a family dinner together..hope everyone is fine and I shall try to catch up as I go along 😊
The most majestic tree in my favourite woodland..
Of course I have taken very many photos of the Horse Chestnut trees in my local woodland and have in the past documented shots of the beautiful blooms to the fruit bearing stage and the emergence of the conkers. I was still using the 135mm 1.8 Samyang Auto lens when taking this shot which is of course renowned as a portrait lens. I used this wide open at 1.8 and quite frankly amazed at the amount of detail I got, including those tiny stamens that always put me in mind of hundreds of tiny dancing feet. i can tell you that this photo had no sharpening either in camera or in photoshop. The only single thing I did was a small boost to the reds (which if you are familiar with photoshop hue and saturation actually gave a small boost to the oof light green sunlit background and to the blue of the tiny amount of blue sky in the bokeh. I could have course got a that bloom as well or maybe even better come to that if it was focus stacked but no chance on this windy day. Hand held with minimal adjustment with the manual focus that is available for critical focus..
We got back late yesterday and I was very slightly better for the rest. When we went to the beach the first day I was desperately upset to need Jonathans help back to the promenade. I rested a day and a half and managed a walk along the beach without incident on Monday so maybe I just need to pace myself...I hope to catch up as soon as I can. I must say i remain disgusted that our campsite advertises WiFi which is not strictly true. You get something called camping connect with a strong warning that it is insecure..apart from that, because i was willing to try it just to keep up on Flickr of an evening but just black holes for minutes at a time where the photos' should be so regretfully had to give up..Very annoying because I had the time on my hands to do so :(
I am still slow to catch up as today the day we fetch Leo from school and have a family dinner together..hope everyone is fine and I shall try to catch up as I go along 😊