suck-u-lent

[piranha]

only threatening rain today! cut the pieces for the paramour's bed.

the reformatories steadily dropping in the polls over the last week is starting to get me excited.

Comments

[janetmiles.livejournal.com]

Gorgeous photo.

[wcg.livejournal.com]

Oh *damn* that's pretty!

[treacle-well.livejournal.com]

Oh my. That photo...wow.

[eub.livejournal.com]

I love the spiral pattern of edging with purple and then with pale spikelets. My eye keeps trying to follow it onto the one big leaf in left center; I only wish that edge were in clearer focus.

bad focus

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

you're absolutely right, it would be a better photo if that edge were in focus. because of the way the plant grew (that leaf came way out towards me) i couldn't get everything in focus that i wanted to. i have to start working much more on controlling depth of field; i'm letting the camera do too much on its own by mostly shooting in aperture priority mode (i really don't like to be fidding a lot when i am just wandering around looking for interesting stuff, but i've got to do more practice sessions at home so it becomes less fiddly and more automatic).

Re: bad focus

[eub.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it can be really hard to get enough DOF in closeups esp. without lugging a tripod. And hard even to see when you've missed focus on something, with compact cameras.