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Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Blossom Time

Spring has definitely arrived. Here's the West Bay Walkway. This photo is the result of exploring one of the characteristics of my camera called "Digital Manual Focus". With this feature activated the camera auto-focuses as normal but as soon as you touch the manual focus ring it zooms the live view and lets you manually fine-tune the focus. This is very handy when you want to focus on something small. For instance, in this photo the auto-focus mechanism put all those background blossoms in perfect focus but left that single sprig in the foreground rather blurry. Since the foreground sprig was what I wanted I let the camera auto-focus and then adjusted the focus manually so what I wanted was in focus. After you have pressed the shutter the camera reverts to auto-focus. Very useful feature!

6 comments:

Andy said...

Interesting scene. Seeing the spring blooms make me envious.

Stefan Jansson said...

Great to see. And it's a fine photo.

JoJo said...

So pretty.

The Furry Gnome said...

I don't believe that you've got spring blossoms already!

Stephanie said...

Too early and allergies happening already. We noticed the Poppies are coming up already, now that is way way too early.

William Kendall said...

And here we're still in the ice box! Very pretty, but too early.