When I worked at my government job I started a Lunch Walk Series (inspired by David’s), which went by the wayside when I started working from home again. Four days out of the past week I’ve been at work at either 6am or 7am (OUCH!!), which meant I needed to escape the office at lunch hour with my camera to get out of my chair for a while — trips to the washroom and back don’t count.
I’m pleased to report that the lunch-hour radius of my current working neighbourhood (the financial district) is much more interesting than my previous working neighbourhood (further north along Bay Street, at College), which should give the lunch walk photos a greater range beyond construction site graffiti. Except I usually don’t begin work until noon, so the lunch walk photo album will probably grow very, very slowly.
Here are some pics from today, mostly from St. Lawrence Market, the first photo taken just outside:
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Love the bus and the asparagus!
(this sentence is just… weird…
)
Just curious: how to you bring such a strong focus on the foreground?
I finally bought a DSLR (Nikon D60) and I’m enjoying every second of it. Please, come to Ottawa to play with me!
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Don’t buses and asparaguses (asparagi?) go together?
The foreground focus is called depth of field (you’ll also see it referred to as DOF), and to make it shallow like that you need a wide aperture (smaller f/ numbers like f/1.7, f/2.8, etc.). It’s all in the lens… want to have a photography lesson in Ottawa?
Congrats on the D60! I’ll show you how to use it…
YES!!!
I’m learning little by little and it’s so much fun. I love experimenting…
Before I got the camera, I spent hours reading about photography in Chapters (sad, isn’t it
) and now, I can actually see and understand how whatever effect is done. So cool.
Played around with the aperture today for some macros and I got it. Thanks!
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