randomfire: shutterclicks: Dandelions

Jun 08 3

Dandelions

Posted in liperi (tags: dandelion, field, grass, green, yellow) |

One of the funny memories of have of American family and friends visiting us in the spring is their reactions to the dandelion fields we have in the countryside. Many hay fields sport a healthy dose of yellow at this time of the year. Even weeds can look magnificent.

These poor flowers didn’t last long after this shot was taken. Our good friend the lawn-mower took care of them…

This is an entry for my 2008challenge project.

Canon EOS 30D
1/4000 s
f/2.8
ISO 200
-2/3 EV
150 mm
Flash: No

2 rambles from others

From Martin @ 03.06.2008 14:28

Nice use of DOF!
From ramin @ 05.06.2008 00:25

Thanks.

I’ve been looking at other’s shots with blurred foregrounds and decided to give it a try with this shot.

Leave your rambling thoughts

About

Simply put, this is Ramin Miraftabi's photoblog. It is an offshoot of my main (in English) blog, randomfire.

I decided to start photoblogging to better challenge myself photographically. We've been publishing a daily photoblog of dog pictures (The Life of Jalo) since September 2004 but I wanted to branch out a bit. Originally I tried to adhere to the picture-a-day approach, but that didn't work. Partly because some days I ran out of time and other days I had good images left over. So now my goal is just to publish a new picture every day. It'll also let me play around a bit more with post-processing, which LoJ doesn't really do.

Gear

Canon EOS 30D

Canon EOS 300D

Tamron SP AF 28-75mm f/2.8 XR Di ASPH IF MACRO

Canon EF 70-200mm f/4L USM

Sigma EX 150mm f/2.8 APO DG HSM MACRO

Canon EF 75-300mm f/4-5.6 III

Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 USM

Sigma EF-500 DG Super

Nikon SB-800

Nikon SB-28

Various tripods, monopods, lightstands, umbrellas, reflectors, etc.