6/5/11 - "Hosta Macro #1"









"Hosta Macro #1"








     While I have images from four other photo shoots with my Canon 5D ready to be edited and posted, this picture (along with its companion shot, which I'll also include here) is - chronologically -the next one I took, albeit with my Canon PowerShot SD1000 Digital ELPH: My everyday, always at the ready, contained in-a-little-pouch-on-my-belt camera.







"Hosta Macro #2"







     Aside from the convenience of nearly always having it with me, one of the best features of this little camera is its macro capabilities. Eventually I want to get a dedicated macro lens for my 5D. But for the price of one of those - nearly $1,000 for a top-of-the-line L Series lens - I could buy four brand new point and shoots, with even better quality and more features than my current four year old SD1000.

     These photos were both taken one night, a couple of weeks ago, when I was walking back from my dinner break. I'd gone out for some low-calorie, reduced-fat, whole wheat white pizza at Pizza Park - on 1st Avenue, between 66th & 67th Streets, on Manhattan's Upper East Side - and as I was returning to the studio I passed these hostas. They were on the north side of 67th Street, alongside a playground that's part of Vanguard High School, and they still bore raindrops from an earlier rain shower. 

     Tomorrow I'll finally be able to start editing and posting photos from our trip two weekends ago to Poughkeepsie, Newburgh, Middletown and White Lake, NY - which is about a mile east of the town of Bethel, home of the famed Woodstock Festival from the summer of '69: "The Summer of Love."


FOR HOSTA MACRO #1:

Canon
Canon PowerShot SD1000
1/30 second
F/2.8
6 mm
80
May 20, 2011, 6:20:34 PM
Adobe Photoshop CS5.1 Windows
13mm


FOR HOSTA MACRO #2:

Canon
Canon PowerShot SD1000
1/25 second
F/2.8
6 mm
80
May 20, 2011, 6:21:12 PM
Adobe Photoshop CS5.1 Windows
13mm

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