Fungal Frog...

27 November 2010

I had some fun last night... testing my new Christmas present... 

The 35mm prime lens arrived in the post... followed by the set of diopter lens attachments which arrived yesterday morning so the resistance was gone...

I wanted to see what they could do.  I had read that the prime lens makes a huge difference with sharpness of photograph when photographing in the evening in low light conditions...

(35mm prime lens with +1 diopter)

So I tried all the different attachments there is one of +1, +2, +4, and +10 in the pack...  

(35mm prime lens with +2 diopter)

I really love the way I was getting a sharp image where I was focusing and the lovely softened area around it.

(35mm prime lens with +4 diopter)

The more magnification the diopter attachment had the larger the contrast between the area in focus and the background softness...

(35mm prime lens with +10 diopter)

I loved this photo.  I was focusing on the frog's eye and side of face. 

I adore the photographs of the little green frogs that I have seen on other people's blogs.  So incredibly cute.  We don't have little green frogs like that here.  The frog in the photo is carved from a dry fungus that I bought when I visited Canada in 1991.  I have always liked it.

It is interesting the different effects that can be achieved using different types of lens.  It is going to be a steep learning curve working out how to achieve what I want and remember how I did it...  So different to using either my trusty little Nikon P4 that I just adore or my camera phone...