The Lockdown Logs

Dateline: April 27th 2020

I’m running out of subjects!  So I made a photograph of the trunk of two palm tress, just to show the texture and to illustrate the accuracy of the focus peaking on the Fujifilm X-T30:-

The Lockdown Logs

Dateline: April 26th 2020

Bluebell macro!  Back garden photography with the Fujifilm X-T30 and a Nikon MF300mm lens (Macro). I keep the shutter speed fairly high on these, – that lens is heavy and moves about a bit, so 1/640th sec for this shot.  f/4, ISO800.

The Lockdown Logs

Datline: April 25th 2020

The lonely postbook.  This postbox sits in the middle of the countryside, on Ballyknockan Road, between Ballygowan and …. um, nowhere at all?  (It leads onto the road between Saintield and Carryduff)

I just felt sorry for it.  Poor thing.

The Lockdown Logs

Dateline: April 23rd 2020

It’s really difficult getting a home delivery from Asda during the Lockdown, unless you live in Ballybeen, when you just push the trolley a couple of miles up the road. Simples!

I mean, who’s going to stop you?

The Lockdown Logs

Datline: April 21st 2020

We have Clematis growing profusely all over a trellis in the garden, and they’ve just started to flower, so the time was right to shoot the new blossoms with a 200mm Macro Lens, – Nikon Lens on Fuji mirrorless camera.  Manual focus with focus-peaking.

The Lockdown Logs

Datline: April 20th 2020

I love TEXTURES and this old barn door has texture aplenty!  It’s just down the road from where I live, so I wasn’t breaking the Lockdown when I went to photograph it.  Honestly Constable…

The Lockdown Logs

Datline: April 17th 2020

More barbed wire.  And a demonstration of shallow depth of field, – lens aperture wide open, giving creamy bokeh, made using focus-peaking to get the pin-sharp focus.