{"id":313,"date":"2006-10-08T21:15:13","date_gmt":"2006-10-09T01:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=313"},"modified":"2012-12-21T11:06:01","modified_gmt":"2012-12-21T16:06:01","slug":"photo-of-the-day-turning-leaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=313","title":{"rendered":"PHOTO OF THE DAY: TURNING LEAVES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Turning Leaves. Photo copyright Jim Doty Jr.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/06K05M02_114C_1533_wc3.jpg\" alt=\"Turning Leaves. Photo copyright Jim Doty Jr.\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Turning Leaves. Photo \u00c2\u00a9 Jim Doty Jr.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>After shooting a somewhat lackluster sunrise from the north shore of Lake Michigan, I looked down at my feet. The dew covered leaves were varying shades of green, orange and red. I picked out a nice cluster with a pleasing background and dropped my tripod legs to get my camera about a foot off the ground.<\/p>\n<p><em>to continue, use the page links to the right<\/em><br \/>\n<!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<p>I put a Canon 500D double element closeup lens on my 70-200mm zoom lens so it could focus closeup enough to provide enough magnification of the small leaves. The 500D is actually a screw in closeup filter with two pieces of glass for better image quality. It is an excellent and relatively inexpensive way to do quality closeup work if you have a lens in the 200mm range.<\/p>\n<p>The shutter speed was slow, a recipe for unsharp images with longer lenses, so I turned on the mirror lockup feature on the camera body. The mirror locks up prior to the shutter release so there is no vibration from the mirror slap. I use mirror lockup with long lenses (200mm and longer) any time the shutter speed is between 1\/30 and 1\/4 second. I would not buy a camera body for critical work that didn&#8217;t have mirror lockup.<\/p>\n<p>In order to keep the background out of focus, I used a wide aperture so depth of field was minimal. Only part of the center leaf is in sharp focus. With a much smaller aperture, all of the leaves would look sharp due to increased depth of field, but the background would no longer be soft for the same reason. I could preview the results with the camera&#8217;s depth of field preview button, another valuable feature.<\/p>\n<p><em>Data: Canon 5D. Canon EF 70-200mm lens at 180mm with a 500D closeup lens. Aperture: f\/4. Shutter: 1\/30 second. ISO: 100.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turning Leaves. Photo \u00c2\u00a9 Jim Doty Jr. After shooting a somewhat lackluster sunrise from the north shore of Lake Michigan, I looked down at my feet. The dew covered leaves were varying shades of green, orange and red. I picked &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=313\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-photographs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3616,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions\/3616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}