Velvet Firelight

This is a rose from Sacramento’s California’s Capitol Park Rose Garden. It was taken in full sunlight using a ND4 (neutral density) filter to limit a lot of the light coming into the Nikkor 18 – 105mm lens. By doing to, there was little editing after the shot, resizing and a bit of cropping. I’m not always fond of using this filter unless I can’t get fine definition to show well between changes in the aperture and exposure offset. But when it works, it can give you a chance for The Shot that you weren’t going to get otherwise.

The Nikon D90 was the weapon of choice when the Panasonic TZ4 decided it wasn’t going to take macros when asked. I brought it with me today and restricted it to hanging around my neck in the case as punishment. It promised not to be a jerk in the future so I let it shoot my arm with a yellow-faced ladybug on it but the damned bug either decided to bite me or start rooting around for something between skin cells. The Panasonic’s aim was off a bit and I couldn’t check it before I was unfairly eaten.