Full Moon Madness

Yesterday Steve suggested that we go out to the Golden Gate Bridge to shoot the full moon.

Needless to say there were a number of people who had the same idea. While I haven’t seen Jim’s or Steve’s shots, I imagine they’ll look so similar. The photos do no justice to the beauty of the scene and I can’t remember the last time all 3 of us went on a shoot. We should do it more often.

Wasp

Found this dead wasp in the backyard so I thought it would be a good test. This was really difficult. The depth of field was so shallow I had to do a focus stack.

But just to get it in focus was trying as I shot this in the living room on the coffee table. Everytime I would focus, lean back to depress the shutter and the carpet would give just enough that the wasp was out of focus. This was all compounded by my “old” eyes which meant I had to constantly switch between glasses on to view and off to focus. Oh did I mention it was too dim to focus so I had to hold a flashlight too. The lens was approximately an inch away so when I’d reach over to focus I would hit the leaf and have to start all over again. I was a real cuss-er!