I have recently posted a few photos of my Crocus that I took with my iPhone. The above photo was also taken with my iPhone with the help of the Best Camera App. iPhone photos can amazing but sometimes you need to use a real camera, in this case a Nikon D200 and a 50mm F1.8 lens. If you own a DSLR you should really consider getting a 50mm lens.
My Crocus bulbs are starting to fade now but my Violets are going like gang busters.
There are always photos to be found. You need light to make photos and you need to be paying attention. As I was finishing up helping my daughter study her spelling I noticed that the sun was down but the sky was still bright. The sky was making the leaves on my Chestnut tree glow. I grabbed my Nikon D200 and put on my 35mmF2 lens and shot about 9 photos. I liked these three. I will say it again, there are always photos to be found if you pay attention to the light.
Sometimes you work so much you have to just do something for yourself. For me that is taking pictures. I really truly miss film and darkroom work. This afternoon I needed to shoot something fun so I grabbed my D200 with the 35mm F2 and set the camera on B&W and went out to the backyard. I was in the mood to shoot some Fine Art type images because I have been listening to Brooks Jensen's Podcasts on my iPhone and he is a Fine Art Photographer and the editor of Lens Work Magazine. So my feeling was B&W and I was shooting the lens very close to wide open around F2.2 -2.8 and I turned the ISO up to 1600 because it was really dark and I didn't mind the grain look of the digital noise. The 35mm F2 is a great lens on the D200. It acts like a normal lens and it focuses to 10 inches which is about how far I was from this Pine Cone.
I tried several variations of foreground in focus and repeating backgrounds out of focus.
