Prime lens
This week I purchased a second hand Prime Lens for my Nikon camera. F stop 1.8
This lens is a manual focus lens and therefore I have to be really careful and work hard to get the correct focus.
Visiting the Orchids Festival at Kew Gardens this week, I took my prime lens to see if I could get some close up shots of the flowers.
I was so excited by the low aperture range in this lens, that I didn’t change from F stop 1.8 the whole afternoon. Not a problem for some of the pictures I had taken, however looking through them I can see that I should have played around with the aperture a little bit more.
Keeping my Aperture on F stop 1.8 meant I had a very shallow depth of field. On some of the photographs I took the focus area wasn’t wide enough.
As you can see from the some of the photographs below, most of one flower is in focus and gets blurred towards the edge of the flower.
If I had upped the aperture to perhaps 2.8, I may have been able to get in the whole flowerhead.
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