There is a lot that is wrong with this photo, starting with the focus. But then I like the delicate flame like twirl of the defocussed leaf in the background and the two elements in the picture seemingly touching at one point. Also, this is proof that Minolta’s body integral anti-shake works. There is no way I could have got this passably decent photo, shot in low light at 1/8 shutter speed, hand-held with a 100mm macro lens, if not for the anti-shake!

I love colors such as these. They have a dream-like quality, soft, ethereal and smooth! For the curious ones, this is a shot of the inside of the heating unit, which heats my house, where the gas is burnt as seen through a tiny port-hole.

Just trying to cheer myself up.

Furthur explorations in the world of macro. The object in the image should be pretty easy to guess, right? If you look closely you might just make out my tripod and me! And I love the bokeh of this lens. For those who do not know, bokeh (from Japanese, pronounced ‘boh-keh’) is the rendering of out of focus areas in a photo by the lens. For example, in this photo it is the stuff behind the object. This is a simplistic way of putting things but the smoother the bokeh the better the photo looks. Someone in a review for this lens had commented that the bokeh it gave was like melted cheese…I concur!

I had decided to enter this week’s Dyxum Photo C)and looking to enter another photo I played around with the original color photo of this. I liked the end result so much that I decided to post it here as well as enter it into the contest!

The last one, for now, from the macro studies I tried. Proper exposure is something I’ve to learn to do well.

I know that the focus is not spot on in this but I liked the delicate tracery of the veins so I decided to put it up.

The next few shots will be some macro work I tried with some leaves I picked from my garden and the newly acquired macro lens I was talking about yesterday. I’m in love with the wonderful world of macro now!

This image was actually a complete mistake. I was playing around with my newly acquired Minolta 100mm Macro lens when I inadvertently pushed the shutter release. As I was inside my house, in low light conditions the shutter was open for all of 30 seconds! I naturally thought the image would be one hell of a stinker but to my surprise I liked the result. So here it is. In case you are wondering what the blurred object is, it is the inner side of my Minolta 50mm prime lens! (A small corner on the left side of the photo was cropped out).