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Friday Slide Show: Garden Macros
5 January 2024
We're having lot of fun shooting macro on the iPhone 15 Pro Max. A few days ago we took it into the garden to look at all the old familiar things in a new light.
We'd never been able to get such intimate shots. These aren't 1:1 macro shots. They are more like enlargements. Sometimes we have no idea what we are looking at.
That's a blast!
As stunning as some of the images were, a good number were simply disappointing. We couldn't always tell while we were shooting but when we were editing, the truth came out.
And they really weren't salvageable, we were surprised to learn. They seemed to have the headroom of old JPEGs in Lightroom. Which they are, of course. JPEGs, not Raw images (we might try that next).
But this set is the best of the garden shots.
It was mostly overcast, which we liked for the soft light, with some timid sunshine. ISO was low (ISO 40 to 64) and so was the shutter speed (1/100 to 1/300 or so). All three lenses have just one wide aperture.
Color and tonality were more disappointing that composing the images. We really liked looking that closely at things we'd been seeing at a distance for 20 years.
Which just goes to show you there's nothing quite as fascinating as the familiar.
