Caroline

Took these under rather difficult circumstances - the light was good coming from a bay window but the background - very busy, so I had to fix it with Photoscape and a bit of blurring in the bottom one.

Caroline is a fantastic model and I wish we'd had more time. She lives in England and was here on holiday.

Moon Flowers

Top photograph taken last evening with settin sun shining through flower and the bottom one this morning at 8.30

As I don't have any little beautiful children to photograph right now .. back into the garden to see how our tomatoes are doing - we planted them in August I think, they are really flourishing and should be ready early December. Red and Yellow.

The Iris

Taken in the garden a few hours ago - an Iris in full bloom and the bud. I was so plesed to see that the camera captured the intense colour

St. Joseph Lilies

So sad ... they dropped yesterday ... this was the last one and I took many!

Do you think they are in sharp focus Marcelle? I changed the settings and upped the sharpness and the colour tone slightly - always think there is a faint brownish tone when I do portraits so changed the grid to the more 'redder" side.

Don't think there is "vivid' on this camera - it operates on Sharpness, Contrast, Saturation and Colour Tone

Pink St. Joseph Lilies

Beautiful pink St. Joseph lilies a friend gave me for my birthday - they have lasted almost three weeks!

Hydrangea Buds

This is camera No2

Hydrangea Buds

I wanted to do a test on my two cameras - really nothing to photograph in the garden at the moment, but I noticed the hydranges budding, just what needed - close ups. Needed to see the clarity. So ...... this is camera No1.
I'll do another post with camera No2. Tell me which is the Canon and which is the Panasonic.

White Eye

Another in the same shoot … both taken with the Panasonic Lumix – can’t falt that Leica lens

White Eye This was taken through the window again - had the camera on continuous and the aperture was 3.3. Good “dof” hey???

Panasonic

OOOPS ..... sorry, it wasn't from a large group as I thought !

Panasonic Lumix

This photograph is quite a huge enlargement from a group photograph taken some years ago. I just wanted to see how the Panasonic would cope - not too bad I think, Iwasn't even focusing on him - just the group in general.
Did a bit of work on the very distracting background - lots of leaves around his face.

Lucy - back lit

I took this though the window pane last Sunday when we were watching the tennis finals from Queens.

Lucy's mother Jessie was sitting on the window sill inside and suddenly Lucy popped up on the outside and looked in at us - dashed for the camera and got this.

Late afternoon.

Lucy

As I was walking past the kitchen on Tuesday, late afternoon about 4. 30 I noticed Lucy sitting on the edge of the counter, the lighting looked unusual - comng from a window on the right and bouncing from the counter.
I took quite a few, and this was the best.


Panasonic Lumix f3.2 1/18

Hedley

Taken today ... I used Picnic Orton -ish. Makes such a difference.

Hedley is so easy to photograph, very photogenic ... and patient.

Hedley

This photograph was taken today - it was my friend Hedley's 82nd Birthday - hope we can look as good when we get there!

Panasonic Lumix - again.

Patrick

Here are a few more photographs of Patrick taken with the Canon
80 - 200mm lens