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easyexposure said
Great photo, Ronald. Can you eat those? Wink

I am sure you will find a lot of friend here! 

Thanks Oksana! A compliment from the master still sounds like music to me...
And to be honoust, I don't know if this cactus-fruit is eatable and somehow I don't want to be the first to try :)

 

]]> Fri, 17 Jan 2014 16:33:53 -0800 ronald on Even a cactus can make a nice picture! http://easy-exposure.com/photo-forum/travel-and-landscape-photos/even-a-cactus-can-make-a-nice-picture/#p10314 Travel and Landscape Photos http://easy-exposure.com/photo-forum/travel-and-landscape-photos/even-a-cactus-can-make-a-nice-picture/#p10314 Great shot.  In this case the diafragma was just right to differentiate the varied distances between the cactus arms. I'm guessing f/2.8 as the metadata is not shown in the file's properties>details. Is the image out of camera, or is there some post?

 

Actually I used an aperture of f/5.6 with a shutterspeed of 1/400 and an ISO of 125. Using a lot of tele (135 mm) gave me e nice depth of field in this case! And yes, the picture just came out of the camera like this, no post-production, only a little crop.

]]> Fri, 17 Jan 2014 16:29:14 -0800 easyexposure on Even a cactus can make a nice picture! http://easy-exposure.com/photo-forum/travel-and-landscape-photos/even-a-cactus-can-make-a-nice-picture/#p10278 Travel and Landscape Photos http://easy-exposure.com/photo-forum/travel-and-landscape-photos/even-a-cactus-can-make-a-nice-picture/#p10278 Great photo, Ronald. Can you eat those? Wink

I am sure you will find a lot of friend here! 

]]> Thu, 16 Jan 2014 10:21:33 -0800 Mandrake on Even a cactus can make a nice picture! http://easy-exposure.com/photo-forum/travel-and-landscape-photos/even-a-cactus-can-make-a-nice-picture/#p10274 Travel and Landscape Photos http://easy-exposure.com/photo-forum/travel-and-landscape-photos/even-a-cactus-can-make-a-nice-picture/#p10274 Great shot.  In this case the diafragma was just right to differentiate the varied distances between the cactus arms.
I'm guessing f/2.8 as the metadata is not shown in the file's properties>details.
Is the image out of camera, or is there some post?

]]> Thu, 16 Jan 2014 06:06:09 -0800 ronald on Even a cactus can make a nice picture! http://easy-exposure.com/photo-forum/travel-and-landscape-photos/even-a-cactus-can-make-a-nice-picture/#p10271 Travel and Landscape Photos http://easy-exposure.com/photo-forum/travel-and-landscape-photos/even-a-cactus-can-make-a-nice-picture/#p10271 IMG_2494-1.JPGI was just out of bed, having my first coffee of the day and saw this huge cactus, normally some ugly thing, but this time it showed some fruits. Because I had nothing else to do I just took a quick shot and was amazed by the sharpness, colors, bokeh. It's amazing how somtimes the pictures of which we expect the most will disappoint us while the effortless ones turn out to be great...

My wife has an easy Sony point and shoot and can't stand anymore to hear me talk about diafragma, ISO, shutterspeed :) So... it's great to find some friends in this comunity, with the greatest compliments to my most charming teacher Oksana :)

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