Five

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When we got our first tent, I suggested that we do a dry run of pitching it, so that the first time we took it out onto a campsite we would look like we knew what we were doing. Our garden wasn’t big enough, and we wanted a location where we wouldn’t get too much passing traffic, so we brought it down to this lovely grassy area here, about a 10 minute walk from home.

Just like Tuesday’s photo, this is me being deliberately experimental by setting ISO 800 for an outdoors shot in bright sunlight.

Taken with a Nikon D40 (ISO 800, f/5.6, 1/2000s)

Pete
November 6, 2014

Four

rr-4-fourAh yes. Four. Well, it has four sides.

It sounds, from the information Pete’s been recording, as though he uses manual settings and controls all sorts of variables. I’ve never got beyond aperture priority myself. But it means, in theory, I can select which bit is in sharp focus and how much else is less so. With this one I didn’t want the view through the “window” completely blurrified because I wanted the words on the signs to be tantalisingly discernible as words but not actually legible.

Of course the effect can be entirely arbitrary since I now need glasses to look at things close to me and, fantastically annoyingly, another pair to look at things far away. Two pairs? wtf! well needless to say I hardly ever wear either so can’t actually see the camera screen properly… almost everything can look out of focus to me.

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  • I had a bit of trouble spotting the four - Bernard
  • Sorry if I gave the wrong impression, I don't use full manual. Usually shutter priority, u... - Pete

FOUR

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Mallard straggler. The Snow Geese are long gone. The Canada Geese are still moving out in droves. Ducks just putter around until ice forces them south.

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  • I like the four because i like noodles - Bernard

Four

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I was determined to do something geometric this week. Lo and behold!

Taken with a Nikon D40 (ISO 200, f/5.6, 1/125s)

Pete
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  • All those mini sqaures!! - Bernard
  • Yeah, Bernard explained it to me on the way home from school. - Karen
  • Because they are squares! - Pete
  • But why is it "four"? - Karen