Just a quick pause on the road today to grab a few shots. I poked the camera through a wire fence and captured the sunlit field with one really nice young tree sporting fall foliage.
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Quite a lovely scene with extremely fine detail in the branches. Really much more detailed that I am used to from even the best of my Fuji compacts or bridge cams.
A shot of the fence, showing that the sensor is large enough to throw the background slightly out of focus even at 28mm EFL. Nice …
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This next one was against the sun, without a lens hood. The lens handled it well, and the sensor handled the deep shadow of the subject, which I of course pulled up in post processing in Lightroom 4.1. I think I hit the Nyquist limit on the pattern of ridges on the silos … the weird patterns that the ridges are making give it away.
This is also corrected for heavy keystoning … I’m not sure that I should have done that. Note the blown out clouds … the sun was right there, and I don’t think there are many cameras that could have handled this scene well.
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And just down the road is one of the better garden centers. They have pumpkins available already, and there apparently are many more coming soon. Here is where the GF3 really shined in my opinion.
Not sure if you have ever seen albino pumpkins, but then have plenty of them.
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Huge piles of the orange ones dominate the place … I like how the one top middle seems suspended in thin air. Cool …
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And now we get a bit closer and open the aperture to throw that background gently out of focus. So very smooth.
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Even more dramatic …
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Which one does not belong?
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And one last one …
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Yes, I like this thing very much
