10-22-09 Seeing Red: Near the Red Hook Brewery

Behind me and to my left is the Red Hook Brewery, which is just outside of Seattle. I doubt you care about that detail. And you may be getting bored with the many Washington State leaf pictures I have featured in this blog. But here's another one.

I intentionally used my Canon 50mm 1.2 lens for this shot because I wanted a very narrow depth of field, which I thought might help accentuate the movement of the leaves in gentle breeze. I generally try for complete focus of the main subject in my photos, but this time I didn't care. I took about 10 pictures - all at the widest aperture of 1.2. When you are working with a wide aperture and trying to shoot something that is relatively close that is moving, you have to get lucky to get anything in focus. This was the best of the bunch.

Here's another photo shot within 100 yards of these trees. (Click)

Check out my Google Map screen capture to see both photo sites from the air. (Click)

Canon 5D 1/500s f/1.2 ISO320 50mm

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